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The Determinants of Rural Migrants' Employment Choice in China : Results from a Joint Estimation

Nahm, Daehoon - 2012

This paper investigates the determinants of employment choice of rural migrant workers across state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and various subtypes of non-state owned enterprises (non-SOEs) by taking into account unobservable characteristics that link the choice to migrate with the choice of...

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The determinants of rural migrants' employment choice in China: Results from a joint estimation

Cui, Yuling; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2012

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The use and impact of job search procedures by migrant workers in China

Fang, Tony; Gunderson, Morley; Lin, Carl - 2015

less on developing countries and very little on China involving migrant workers in spite of their growing practical and … search procedures used by migrant workers in China by taking advantage of a rich data set on migrant workers that has … in China. However, our IV results suggest that the OLS estimates are subject to severe selection bias from the fact that …

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The Use and Impact of Job Search Procedures by Migrant Workers in China

Fang, Tony - 2015

less on developing countries and very little on China involving migrant workers in spite of their growing practical and … search procedures used by migrant workers in China by taking advantage of a rich data set on migrant workers that has … in China.However, our IV results suggest that the OLS estimates are subject to severe selection bias from the fact that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012831

Evolution of the Chinese rural-urban migrant labor market from 2002 to 2007

Qu, Zhaopeng; Zhao, Zhong - 2011

The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data … ; migration decision ; segmentation ; China …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009124150

Search behavior, aggregate rationality and the discouraged worker effect

Dagsvik, John K.; Kornstad, Tom; Skjerpen, Terje - 2019

Discouraged workers are those who have given up search due to (perceived) low chances of obtaining work. In this paper we first develop a model for the probability of being in the labor force as a function of the probability of getting an acceptable job offer. This model is based on standard...

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Labor market frictions and moving costs of the employed and unemployed

Ransom, Tyler - 2019

This paper examines the role of labor market frictions and moving costs in explaining the migration behavior of US workers by employment status. Using data on low-skilled workers from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), I estimate a dynamic model of individual labor supply and...

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The Determinants of Rural Migrants' Employment Choice in China: Results from a Joint Estimation

Cui, Yuling; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Employment Status, Endogenous Regional Mobility, and Spatial Dependencies in Labor Markets

Fahr, René; Sunde, Uwe - 2021

This paper investigates spatial correlation in the matching process of vacant jobs and job seekers. The importance of the interactions of regional labor markets in West Germany is highlighted in several dimensions. We test for spatial autocorrelation in regional hires, unemployment and vacancy...

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Geographic mobility over the life-cycle

Díaz, Antonia; Jáñez, Álvaro; Wellschmied, Felix - 2023

When mobility between locations is frictional, a person's economic well-being is partially determined by her place of birth. Using a life cycle model of mobility, we find that search frictions are the main impairment to the mobility of young people in Spain, and these frictions are particularly...

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