Since the reform and opening up in 1978, China has begun a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization. Along … care of their parents. This paper uses the Rural Urban Migration in China data to empirically investigate the effect of … to complement the traditional family care in rural China. …

Using unique matched employer-employee data from China, we discover that migrant workers in the manufacturing industry …

China's initial reform period. A Heckman model is employed to correct for the zero observation problems and to consistently …

We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large … be expected from further migration and urbanisation in China. …

the human capital investment in girls in contemporary China when institutional arrangements result in high costs of …

This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A …

China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily …. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are aging and migration related in post-reform China? We argue that there … empirically the relationship between origin age distribution and interprovincial migration in China using province-level census …

Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking …. -- Migration ; land rights insecurity ; China ; semiparametric censored regression models …

China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and … evaluating our identification strategy. -- migration ; migrant networks ; consumption ; poverty ; wealth ; rural China …

on the utility of migrants, as proxied by their subjective well-being (SWB). Using data from a new survey on China (RUMiC … contractual motivations (such as co-insurance and investment) are at work among rural-to-urban migrants in China. -- migrants …