de la Rupelle, Maëlys; Quheng, Deng; Li, Shi; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking … destination areas. In this paper, we show that this temporary feature of migration can be linked to land rights insecurity. As … village land ownership remains collective and as land use rights can be periodically reallocated, individual out-migration can …