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). Coincident with the deepening of economic reforms, Hukou has gradually been relaxed since the 1980s, helping to explain an …Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Public benefits, access to good quality housing, schools …, health care, and attractive employment opportunities are available only to those who have local registration (Hukou …
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We analyze the effect of China's integration into the world economy on workers in the country and show that one … uncertainty experience an 18 percent increase in their internal in-migration rate - this result is driven by migrants who are "non-hukou …
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Post-reform China has been experiencing two major demographic changes, an extraordinary amount of internal migration … of a transition economy. We find that shifts in China's age distribution have generated significant changes in the …
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. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are aging and migration related in post-reform China? We argue that there …China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily … empirically the relationship between origin age distribution and interprovincial migration in China using province-level census …
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This paper provides new evidence on migrant networks as determinants of the total size (scale) and skill structure of migration, using aggregate data from a recent migration boom to Spain. We draw upon McFadden (1984, 1422-1428) in order to develop and apply a three-level nested multinomial...
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Does migration serve as an effective channel of regional adjustment to idiosyncratic shocks in transition economies? If so, one should find a strong relationship between regional unemployment and average wages on the one hand, and migration flows on the other. Yet, the evidence from transition...
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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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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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. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are aging and migration related in post-reform China? We argue that there …China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily … empirically the relationship between origin age distribution and interprovincial migration in China using province-level census …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688761
them with migrants who were born with an urban hukou. Using data from the 2003 China General Social Survey, we examine how …
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