Job mobility of residents and migrants in urban China

Knight, John; Yueh, Linda

doi:10.1016/j.jce.2004.07.004

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“…If the economic outlook in the home community is better which means that per capita revenues are larger, the expected returns from migration are lower and migration becomes less attractive. Moreover, migrants face discrimination in cities in terms of employment prospects (Knight and Yueh 2004;Liu 2005;Gunatilaka 2010, 2018). They often work in informal employment and have risky incomes and they are excluded from having access to social security (Knight and Yueh 2004;Giles et al 2010;Biao 2007).…”

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“…Moreover, migrants face discrimination in cities in terms of employment prospects (Knight and Yueh 2004;Liu 2005;Gunatilaka 2010, 2018). They often work in informal employment and have risky incomes and they are excluded from having access to social security (Knight and Yueh 2004;Giles et al 2010;Biao 2007). Consequently, we expect the probability to migrate to be negatively correlated with better economic conditions in the home community.…”

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“…Employment and income of migrating children in the host communities are far from being secure. Migrants often work in informal or precarious employment and have risky incomes excluding them from social security payments (Knight and Yueh 2004;Giles et al 2010;Biao 2007). As a consequence, financial support from a migrant child may be unreliable putting the elderly at a greater risk of falling into poverty (Giles et al 2010).…”

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How does internal migration affect the emotional health of elderly parents left-behind?

Scheffel

Zhang²

2018

J Popul Econ

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The ageing population resulting from the one-child policy and massive flows of internal migration in China pose major challenges to elderly care in rural areas where elderly support is based on a traditional inter-generational family support mechanism. We use data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study to examine how migration of an adult child affects the emotional health of elderly parents left-behind. We identify the effects using fixed effects and IV approaches which rely on different sources of variation. We find that migration reduces happiness by 6.6 percentage points and leads to a 3.3 percentage points higher probability of loneliness. CES-D scores of elderly parents are severely increased pushing average scores close to the cut-off indicating clinical levels of depressive symptoms. As emotional health is a key determinant of the overall health status, our findings have significant impacts on economic development in China.

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How does internal migration affect the emotional health of elderly parents left-behind?

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Zhang²

2018

J Popul Econ

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“…The outcome of these reforms have been significant changes in employment policies and practices for urban workers, previously characterized by strict bureaucratic control, a monopoly on labor allocation through lifetime employment policies and severe restrictions on labor mobility (Knight & Yueh, 2004). The demise of allocated, lifelong jobs in the push towards a market economy has resulted in the materialization of a competitive urban labor market in urban China.…”

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Job satisfaction and relative income in economic transition: Status or signal?

Gao

Smyth

2010

China Economic Review

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“…12 Few studies show empirical evidence on the job mobility of rural migrants. Though the reform of state-owned enterprises in the late 1980s has increased the mobility of urban workers, rural migrants have remained more mobile even after controlling for their demographic characteristics (Knight and Yueh, 2004). On the contrary, Zhang (2010) argues that temporary migrants have longer job durations than local urban workers and only start to change jobs more often after they have stayed in their destination city for some time.…”

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In Search of a Better Life: The Occupational Attainment of Rural and Urban Migrants in China

Kondo

2010

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractThis paper investigates the occupational attainment and job mobility of permanent ruralto-urban migrants and compares them with migrants who were born with an urban hukou.Using data from the 2003 China General Social Survey, we examine how much of the gaps in occupational-prestige scores between rural-and urban-born migrants can be explained by differences in observable characteristics up to the time of migration. We find that, with controls for these characteristics, the difference in occupational attainment between rural and urban migrants becomes statistically insignificant or even positive for some subgroups. In contrast, our analysis of job mobility reveals that rural migrants are generally more mobile and also more likely to move to better jobs by changing workunits, whereas urban migrants are more likely to be promoted within a work-unit. JEL-codes: O15, J0, J61, J62

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Job mobility of residents and migrants in urban China

Cited by 134 publications

References 14 publications

How does internal migration affect the emotional health of elderly parents left-behind?

How does internal migration affect the emotional health of elderly parents left-behind?

Job satisfaction and relative income in economic transition: Status or signal?

In Search of a Better Life: The Occupational Attainment of Rural and Urban Migrants in China

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