Do public work schemes deter or encourage outmigration? Empirical evidence from China

Chau, Nancy H.; Kanbur, Ravi; Qin, Yu

doi:10.1186/2193-9020-3-4

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“…Furthermore, in the case of internal migration, conditions are somewhat easier to meet (Stecklov et al, 2005). This is supported by other studiesfocusing exclusively on internal migrationthat show a strong positive impact of social protection on internal migration, with the transfer facilitating migration by providing funding to finance migration (see Chau, Kanbur, & Qin, 2012, on China and all five studies on South Africa).…”

Section: Considering the Type And Timing Of Migration Flowsmentioning

confidence: 54%

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What do we know about the impact of social protection programmes on the decision to migrate?

Hagen‐Zanker

Himmelstine

2013

Migration and Development

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Migration can be considered an informal coping strategy in a bigger portfolio of livelihood choices. In theory, the availability of other livelihoods sources -like formal social protection -affects the decision to migrate. Access to social protection may either increase or decrease the likelihood of migration and there are theoretical arguments for both. This literature review synthesises the current empirical evidence on how access to social protection in low-income and middle-income countries influences decisions to migrate internally or internationally. The 29 reviewed studies show that access to social protection can affect the propensity to migrate in a number of ways, with about half showing that migration increased and the other half showing that migration decreased. The relationship between access to social protection and migration flows is clearly not linear. How a programme is designed and implemented is important. If implemented well, programmes that give households a dependable income source in areas of origin may be able to prevent migration. Context is critical: in areas of origin with poor employment prospects, social protection can only temporarily prevent migration. It is important to understand the reasons underpinning the migration decision and the constraints that have prevented migration so far.

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Section: Considering the Type And Timing Of Migration Flowsmentioning

confidence: 54%

“…This study shows that the programme has led to an increase in migration, probably by easing credit constraints (Chau et al, 2012). Furthermore, migration has increased to a larger extent in those villages with public investments through roads and bridge construction (ibid).…”

Section: Public Work Programmesmentioning

confidence: 96%

What do we know about the impact of social protection programmes on the decision to migrate?

Hagen‐Zanker

Himmelstine

2013

Migration and Development

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“…Previous studies have provided several reasons for the co-existence of the urban labour shortage and rural labour surplus, such as credit market imperfection with costly migration and the high cost of living faced by rural-to-urban migrants in cities due to the household registration system ( hukou ) (Chau et al, 2014; Knight et al, 2011). There is another possible reason for this phenomenon that previous studies have mostly ignored: rural-to-urban migrants face labour market discrimination in cities due to their hukou status, especially in the urban high-wage sector at companies such as state-owned enterprises (SOEs).…”

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confidence: 99%

Hukou-based labour market discrimination and ownership structure in urban China

Song

2015

Urban Studies

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This paper utilises a 2008 survey on the wave of rural-urban migration in China to provide new empirical evidence on labour market discrimination against rural-to-urban migrants with rural hukou in two ownership sectors within urban China: state-owned enterprises and private firms. By employing a double-selectivity approach, this study shows that the high-wage state-owned enterprise sector is more discriminatory than the private sector against rural hukou holders in urban China. Furthermore, the results from quantile regressions and the wage decomposition inform us that the hukou-based wage discrimination is mainly against middle-and high-wage workers, especially in state-owned enterprises. Moreover, in terms of the magnitude of discrimination, female workers suffer more discrimination than male workers in state-owned enterprises.

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“…vital role in propelling or discouraging migration (e.g., Chau et al 2014;Fan 2005;Liu and Xu 2017;Xing and Zhang 2017;Zhang et al 2020). The academic debate on the weight of economic opportunities vs. amenities in migration has accordingly received more attention (e.g., Liu and Shen 2014a;Mueser and Graves 1995;Wang et al 2020).…”

Section: Migration In Chinamentioning

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Job Prospects and Labour Mobility in China

Wang-Lu¹,

Mendoza²

2022

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China's structural changes have brought new challenges to its regional employment structure, entailing spatial redistribution of workforce. However, Chinese research on migration decisions involving future outcomes and on city-level bilateral longitudinal determinants is almost non-existent. This paper sheds light on the effects of sector-based job prospects on individual migration decisions across prefecture boundaries. To this end, we created a proxy variable for job prospects, compiled a unique quasi-panel of 66,427 individuals from 283 cities during 1997-2017, expanded the random utility maximisation model of migration by introducing the reference-dependence, derived empirical specifications with theoretical micro-foundations and applied various monadic and dyadic fixed effects to address multilateral resistance to migration. Multilevel logit models and two-step system GMM estimation were adopted for the robustness check. Our primary findings are that a 10% increase in the ratio of sector-based job prospects in cities of destination to cities of origin raises the probability of migration by 1.281-2.185 percentage points, and the effects tend to be stronger when the scale of the ratio is larger. Having a family migration network causes an increase of approximately 6 percentage points in migratory probabilities. Further, labour migrants are more likely to be male, unmarried, younger, or more educated. Our results suggest that the ongoing industrial reform in China influences labour mobility between prefecture-level cities, providing important insights for regional policymakers to prevent brain drain and to attract relevant talent.

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Do public work schemes deter or encourage outmigration? Empirical evidence from China

Cited by 7 publications

References 27 publications

What do we know about the impact of social protection programmes on the decision to migrate?

What do we know about the impact of social protection programmes on the decision to migrate?

Hukou-based labour market discrimination and ownership structure in urban China

Job Prospects and Labour Mobility in China

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