Author: Xi ZhaoPublisher: kassel university press GmbH
ISBN: 3862195759
Category : Labor mobility
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Return Migration and Productive Employment in Rural China
Author: Xi ZhaoPublisher: kassel university press GmbH
ISBN: 3862195759
Category : Labor mobility
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Labor Mobility and Migration and Returns to Education in Rural China
Author: Yaohui ZhaoHow Migrant Labor is Changing Rural China
Author: Rachel MurphyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521005302
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Her analysis focuses on the human experiences and strategies that precipitate shifts in national and local policies for economic development; she also examines the responses of migrants, nonmigrants, and officials to changing circumstances, obstacles, and opportunities. This pioneering study is rich in original source materials and anecdotes and also offers useful, comparative examples from other developing countries."--Jacket.
China's Rural Labor Migration And Its Economic Development
Author: Liu XiaoguangPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811208603
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Three Essays on Migration, Education, and Household Development in Rural China
Author: Alan D. De BrauwRural Labor Flows in China
Author: Loraine A. WestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Comprises 12 papers which explore the extent and nature of rural-urban migration in China during the 1980s and 1990s. Examines the characteristics of migrants at the individual, household and community levels and investigates the organizational aspect of labour flows. Analyses the effects of migration on rural and urban areas. Includes a chapter on the development of labour migration from Mexico to the USA.
Rural-urban Migration in Developing Countries
Author: Somik V. LallPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN:
Category : Mercado de trabajo - Paises en desarrollo
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
"The migration of labor from rural to urban areas is an important part of the urbanization process in developing countries. Even though it has been the focus of abundant research over the past five decades, some key policy questions have not found clear answers yet. To what extent is internal migration a desirable phenomenon and under what circumstances? Should governments intervene and, if so, with what types of interventions? What should be their policy objectives? To shed light on these important issues, the authors survey the existing theoretical models and their conflicting policy implications and discuss the policies that may be justified based on recent relevant empirical studies. A key limitation is that much of the empirical literature does not provide structural tests of the theoretical models, but only provides partial findings that can support or invalidate intuitions and in that sense, support or invalidate the policy implications of the models. The authors' broad assessment of the literature is that migration can be beneficial or at least be turned into a beneficial phenomenon so that in general migration restrictions are not desirable. They also identify some data issues and research topics which merit further investigation. "--World Bank web site.
Rural Labor Migration, Discrimination, and the New Dual Labor Market in China
Author: Guifu ChenPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783642411083
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book studies some important issues in China’s labor market, such as rural labor migration, employment and wage discrimination, the new dual labor market, and economic returns on schooling, using the newer and representative data and advanced estimation models. This approach has yielded many interesting results, including a solution to the dilemma of two ongoing crises since 2004: the rural labor surplus and severe shortage of migrant labor. While male workers generally received less favorable treatment and consequently enjoyed a lower average employment probability than female workers in 1996, they also received preferential treatment over female workers, who otherwise had identical worker characteristics in 2005. We provide new estimates for male-female hourly wage differentials in urban China, and our results indicate that the hourly wage differentials and the unexplained part of the hourly wage differentials are smaller than the differentials obtained by ignoring the sample selection bias. We study China’s new dual labor market, which is shifting from a rural migration versus urban workers setup to informal workers versus formal workers setup, and present some interesting results. Our study is the first to adopt the IV methodology and the Heckman (1979) two-step procedure simultaneously for the estimation of economic returns on schooling in China.
Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World
Author: Alan de BrauwPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 2008040208
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
In this paper, we examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of households in rural China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and that this effect is stronger for poorer households within villages. Household income per capita and non-durable consumption per capita both increase with out-migration, and this increase is greater for poorer households. We also establish a causal relationship between increased out-migration and investment in housing and durable goods assets, and these effects are also stronger for poorer households. We do not find robust evidence, however, to support a connection between increased migration and investment in productive activity. Instead, increased migration is associated with two significant changes for poorer households: increases both in the total labor supplied to productive activities and in the land per capita managed by the household. In examining the effect of migration, we pay considerable attention to motivating, developing and evaluating our identification strategy.
Labor Migration and Returns to Rural Education in China
Author: Yaohui ZhaoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This paper provides an answer to the following question: Why do empirical studies find low returns to schooling in rural China, and yet the schooling rates are high? I find that schooling played a significant role in raising the accessibility of urban formal employment to rural people in the late 1970s and early 1980s in the face of the government's restrictive policy on labor migration from rural to urban areas. The large urban-rural income difference provided a strong incentive for senior high school education. The theory also explains the drop in the senior high school attendance in the mid 1980s.