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The Role of China's Household Registration System in the Urban-Rural Income Differential

Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2017

Together with the rapid growth of the Chinese economy, there has been a growing divide in the earnings of urban and rural residents. In this paper we focus on China's household registration system, or "hukou", as a potential source of the earnings gap. Using multiple waves of data from the...

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Height, Weight and Well-Being for Rural, Urban and Migrant Workers in China

Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2015

In general, the happiness literature has paid little attention to the relationship between physical appearance and well-being. In this paper, we examine the link between weight, height and well-being for three distinct samples in China given that attractiveness effects likely vary greatly across...

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City Size, Family Migration, and Gender Wage Gap : Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants in China

Xing, Chunbing; Yuan, Xiaoyan; Zhang, Junfu - 2022

married women more likely to be employed and to secure suitable jobs after family migration. We find no evidence for …

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Glass Ceiling Effect in Urban China : Wage Inequality of Rural-Urban Migrants During 2002-2007

Qu, Zhaopeng (Frank) - 2017

The paper studies the levels and changes in wage inequality among Chinese rural-urban migrants during 2002-2007. Using data from two waves of national household surveys, we find that wage inequality among migrants decreased significantly between 2002 and 2007. Our analysis on the wage...

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Where are Migrants from? Inter- vs. Intra-Provincial Rural-Urban Migration in China

Su, Yaqin - 2017

and outside province. In addition, moving beyond one's home province has a strong deterrent effect on migration, analogous … to the "border effect" identified in international migration studies. We also explore the role of culture, institutional …

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Son Preference and Human Capital Investment Among China's Rural-Urban Migrant Households

Lin, Carl - 2018

We use several datasets to study whether son preference prevails in the human capital investment among Chinese rural-urban migrant households. We find that son preference exists among the rural migrants' households and that it caused lower probabilities relative to that of their boy counterparts...

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Self-Employment of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China

Giulietti, Corrado - 2014

potential gains from either type of employment; the second takes into account that the determinants of the migration decision … can be correlated with employment choices. Using data from the 2008 Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI … differential, which in turn is used to model the employment choice. The procedure is extended to account for migration selectivity …

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