China's initial reform period. A Heckman model is employed to correct for the zero observation problems and to consistently …

This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. We first present a simple …

Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking …

China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and …

the human capital investment in girls in contemporary China when institutional arrangements result in high costs of …

Using a national sample of Urban Household Surveys, we document several profound changes in China's wage structure … the major forces behind the evolving wage structure in China …

children's nutritional status in migrant households. Measures of social disadvantage are based on China's hukou system of …

In this paper, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate how well China's urban areas absorb migrant workers … and regional rural labor absorption efficiency in mainland China. It appears that 4 out of 31 provinces and municipals are … China, urban labor absorption efficiency is higher compared with the western and northern parts of China. Different …

on the utility of migrants, as proxied by their subjective well-being (SWB). Using data from a new survey on China (RUMiC … contractual motivations (such as co-insurance and investment) are at work among rural-to-urban migrants in China …