China's Industrial Transfer Policy (ITP) is a novel place-based development policy of unprecedented scale. The policy … targets a set of inland cities aiming to i) grow them in size and ii) restructure them into manufacturing hubs. These cities … would eventually relieve pressure in China's coastal manufacturing hubs. We use a detailed migrant survey to estimate the …

We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large … positive correlation of the city share of migrants with natives' wages. Using different sets of control variables and … be expected from further migration and urbanisation in China. …

Despite the massive forced relocation of residents during urban restructuring in China, there are no systematic studies … on how residents undergo the process. Most studies concerning urban restructuring in China directly equate forced … restructuring in China. It takes forced relocation to be a process with changing contents over time, and as a specific type of …