Returns to education and urban-migrant wage differentials in China: IV quantile treatment effects

Messinis, George

doi:10.1016/j.chieco.2013.03.006

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“…The OLS regression results suggest that female rural migrants are very disadvantaged in the urban labor market in China and that there is a substantial income differential across different sectors and occupations, but the economic returns to education are generally high. Because these findings are generally consistent with previous works on Chinese rural migrant's earning performance (Magnani & Zhu, 2012;Messinis, 2013), we skip further discussions of these factors. We move on to construct counterfactual levels of samples' income in the outflow areas by using the coefficients in the first-stage income regression.…”

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Economic incentives and settlement intentions of rural migrants: Evidence from China

Chen

Wei

2018

Journal of Urban Affairs

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Based on a large, nationwide, household-level survey data set collected in 2014, this article investigates the effect of economic incentives on the destination choices of Chinese new-generation rural migrants. Empirical results show that economic incentives have a significant positive impact on the probability of rural migrants' urban settlement intentions but with a diminishing marginal effect. We also find that the marginal effect of economic incentives on rural migrants' urban settlement decreases with the distance to their hometown. Furthermore, the variations of the impacts of economic incentives on rural migrants' settlement intentions are investigated with respect to education level, employment status, and regional heterogeneity. Finally, we discuss policy implications resulting from our empirical analysis. Over the last 2 decades, China has experienced massive rural-to-urban migration, the largest population flow in human history (United Nations, 2015). By the end of 2016, the number of Chinese rural migrants reached 281.7 million. However, constrained by the household registration system (hukou) and other institutional barriers, an astonishing number of migrants are marginalized in Chinese urban society through not being able to gain access to basic local public services and social security (Démurger, Gurgand, Li, & Yue, 2009; He & Wang, 2016). According to official statistics, by the end of 2013, approximately 53.7% of Chinese lived in urban areas but only 36% of Chinese had urban hukou (The State Council of the PRC, 2014). Encouragingly, since 2014, the Chinese government has launched the so-called people-oriented new-type urbanization campaign, which aims to promote better integration of rural migrants into the local urban society (The State Council of the PRC, 2014). The question of how to make rural migrants permanently settle down in the cities has been given increasing priority in the Chinese central government's political agenda. Nonetheless, although there is a large body of literature exploring the factors that affect migration decisions of Chinese rural farmers in China (

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Economic incentives and settlement intentions of rural migrants: Evidence from China

Chen

Wei

2018

Journal of Urban Affairs

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“…On the other hand, hukou discrimination may affect economic development through its impact on human sustainability as well. In economically developed regions such as first-tier cities and coastal areas in China, low-skilled migrants are less likely to obtain formal jobs which provide higher earnings, standard social security and welfare benefits [14,45,46]. A large number of unskilled migrants perceive that they are discriminated against and have limited development prospects in the high human capital zones [44].…”

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Self-Deprecation or Self-Sufficient? Discrimination and Income Aspirations in Urban Labour Market Sustainable Development

Weng

Yang

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Sustainability

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This research contributes to previous studies through exploring the association between individual psychological aspirations and hukou discrimination in the Chinese urban labour market. Applying data from the 2010 China General Social Survey, we divided the sample into local hukou residents and non-local migrants (includes urban-urban migrants and rural-urban migrants). We then examined the relationship between these sub-categories with different hukou status and their income aspirations (i.e., expected wage levels). The estimated results suggest that, in comparison with urban-urban migrants, rural-urban migrants are more likely to self-deprecate. Discrimination against rural-urban migrants significantly restricts their income aspirations. These findings imply that it is urgent to eliminate these negative impacts caused by hukou discrimination in the Chinese urban labour market, and understanding the structure of labour force quality such as psychological condition appears to be important in determining the long-term sustainable development of labour market. Theoretical and empirical implications, limitations and further research directions are also discussed.

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“…The Chinese literature on internal migration is primarily concerned about the inequality between urban residents and rural-urban migrants (Cai & Wang, 2012;Lee, 2012;Lu & Wang, 2013;Messinis, 2013;Xue, Gao, & Lin, 2014;Zhu, forthcoming). Minimal attention has been paid to the impact of rural-urban migration on inequality in the sending communities.…”

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The dynamic effect of rural-to-urban migration on inequality in source villages: System GMM estimates from rural China

Yuan

et al. 2016

China Economic Review

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Returns to education and urban-migrant wage differentials in China: IV quantile treatment effects

Cited by 50 publications

References 46 publications

Economic incentives and settlement intentions of rural migrants: Evidence from China

Economic incentives and settlement intentions of rural migrants: Evidence from China

Self-Deprecation or Self-Sufficient? Discrimination and Income Aspirations in Urban Labour Market Sustainable Development

The dynamic effect of rural-to-urban migration on inequality in source villages: System GMM estimates from rural China

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