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China’s Lesser Known Migrants
Quheng, Deng; Gustafsson, Bjorn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In China hukou (the household registration system) imposes barriers on permanent migration from rural to urban areas …-born counterparts and those who receive a hukou before age 25 typically earn at least as much as their urban-born counterparts. The … exceptions for this are those permanent migrants who receive a hukou after age 25 and people who received their hukou through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822216
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China's lesser known migrants
Quheng, Deng; Gustafsson, Björn - 2006
In China hukou (the household registration system) imposes barriers on permanent migration from rural to urban areas …-born counterparts and those who receive a hukou before age 25 typically earn at least as much as their urban-born counterparts. The … exceptions for this are those permanent migrants who receive a hukou after age 25 and people who received their hukou through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267854
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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been fairly steep since the 1980s. Policy action has taken the form of regional development measures and of reforms of various aspects of the social safety net broadly defined. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480479
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Legal Informality and Human Capital Development in China
Chen, Ruoying - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977112
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Economic-Demographic Interactions in Agricultural Development: The Case of Rural-to-Urban Migration
Stark, Oded - 1978
The purpose of this study is to present a new piece of conceptual work which analyzes rural-to-urban migration and, in the light of this conceptual work, to examine: (a) some of the migration-related evidence; (b) interactions between rural-to-urban migration and some other key variables; (c)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012491648
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Agglomeration, pollution, and migration: A substantial link, and policy design
Stark, Oded; Pang, Yu; Fan, Simon Chengze - 2022
We study a developing countries setting in which agglomeration efficiency of urban production attracts rural-to-urban migration, whereas urban pollution deters rural-to-urban migration. By means of a general equilibrium model we study the formation of policies aimed at striking a socially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480242
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Agglomeration, pollution, and migration : a substantial link, and policy design
Stark, Oded; Pang, Yu; Fan, Chengze Simon - 2022
We study a developing countries setting in which agglomeration efficiency of urban production attracts rural-to-urban migration, whereas urban pollution deters rural-to-urban migration. By means of a general equilibrium model we study the formation of policies aimed at striking a socially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013459470
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Can Information Influence the Social Insurance Participation Decision of China's Rural Migrants?
Giles, John T.; Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen; Zhao, Guochang - 2021
This paper uses a randomized information intervention to shed light on whether poor understanding of social insurance, both the process of enrolling and costs and benefits, drives the relatively low rates of participation in urban health insurance and pension programs among China's rural-urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497994
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Can information influence the social insurance participation decision of China's rural migrants?
Giles, John; Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen; Zhao, Guochang - 2021
This paper uses a randomized information intervention to shed light on whether poor understanding of social insurance, both the process of enrolling and costs and benefits, drives the relatively low rates of participation in urban health insurance and pension programs among China's rural-urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012431351
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Can Information Influence the Social Insurance Participation Decision of China's Rural Migrants?
Giles, John; Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen; Zhao, Guochang - 2021
This paper uses a randomized information intervention to shed light on whether poor understanding of social insurance, both the process of enrolling and costs and benefits, drives the relatively low rates of participation in urban health insurance and pension programs among China's rural-urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013246901