This study examines the determinants of rural-urban migration paying special attention to the role of human capital externalities in the rural sector. Using data from a well-known household survey in China, we find that in rural areas human capital externalities have a discouraging effect on...

Following Rauch's (1993) seminal study, there has been a growing interest among economists in estimating human capital externalities at the individual level. In this paper, we provide a first set of estimates of the external returns to education in Chinese cities. We find that the external...

We investigate empirically whether foreign direct investment generates externalities in the form of technology transfer. Using data on 29 manufacturing industries over the period from 1993 to 1998 in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone of China, we find that foreign direct investment has large...

We examine the impact of China's hukou system, which is an institution controlling population movement, on social and economic outcomes at the individual level. Using data from a recent Chinese household survey, we find that people who obtained urban hukou late in their lives fared significantly...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to study how an approach of culturally‐specific human resource management (HRM) should moderate the relationship between leadership style and employee turnover. Design/methodology/approach – Questionnaire data were collected from firms in both...