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Giulietti, Corrado; Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - 2014

This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in the rural-to-urban migration decision in China. We first …

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Social networks and mental health problems : evidence from rural-to-urban migrants in China

Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2017

Over the past two decades, more than 160 million rural residents have migrated to cities in China. They are usually … survey from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) project, we find that larger social networks are significantly …

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China's "great migration" : the impact of the reduction in trade policy uncertainty

Facchini, Giovanni; Liu, Maggie Y.; Mayda, Anna Maria; … - 2018 - This draft: November 2017

We analyze the effect of China's integration into the world economy on workers in the country and show that one …

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Welfare magnets and internal migration in China

Jin, Zhangfeng - 2020

This study examines the causal effects ofwelfare benefits on internal migration decisions. Using a quasi-experimentalmigration reform across 283 Chinese cities from 2002 to 2015, combined with a difference-in-differences setup, Ishowthat improvedwelfarebenefitssubstantially increasemigration....

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Air pollution quotas and the dynamics of internal skilled migration in Chinese cities

Yu, Bo; Lee, Wang-Sheng; Rafiq, Shuddhasattwa - 2020

This paper examines the role of a sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions quota introduced as part of China's 11th Five …

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The health impacts of relaxing internal migration policies : quasi-experimental evidence from China

Wu, Fengyu; Wang, Julia Shu-Huah; You, Jing; Teitler, Julien - 2025

This study examines the health impacts of a large-scale internal migration reform in China. Using nationally … representative data from the China Labor-Force Dynamics Survey (2012-2018) and a unique dataset on city-level policy intensity and …

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China’s 'New Generation' Rural-Urban Migrants : Migration Motivation and Migration Patterns

Hu, Xiaochu - 2012

The majority of China’s roughly 145 million rural-urban migrants were born after 1980, making this population the “new … generation” of internal migrant workers. Having been directly influenced by China’s rapid economic growth and recent socio …

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Interprovincial Migration and Human Capital Formation in China

Suzuki, Yui; Suzuki, Yukari - 2010

formation in China in the 1990s. Consistently with a simple model of migration-oriented investment and disinvestment in higher … reinforces prospects of development in China. We also find that changes in relative labor supply resulted from net outflow …

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Human Capital Accrual, Skill Complementarity, and Urban Migration : New Evidence from China

Fu, Yuming; Gabriel, Stuart A. - 2014

-to-urban migration in China. Specifically, the research evaluates whether Chinese urbanization following the 1990s liberalization of … in China which sustained urban segregation in occupation and social interactions to the disadvantage of low …

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

Giulietti, Corrado - 2014

This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self … can be correlated with employment choices. Using data from the 2008 Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI …

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