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Essays on rural-urban migration in h...

University of California, San Diego., Economics and Internatl Affairs.

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Essays on rural-urban migration in hinterland China.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Essays on rural-urban migration in hinterland China./
作者:	Meng, Lei.
面頁冊數:	138 p.
附註:	Advisers: Gordon Hanson; Barry Naughton.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-05A.
標題:	Economics, Labor. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=3356279
ISBN:	9781109164114

Essays on rural-urban migration in hinterland China.
Meng, Lei.

Essays on rural-urban migration in hinterland China. - 138 p.

Advisers: Gordon Hanson; Barry Naughton.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009.

Using self-collected rural household data in Zhijiang municipality, Hubei province, China, my dissertation addresses three different aspects of rural-urban migration in hinterland China. First, I study the relationship between origin income and the individual's migration decision. I instrument the key variable, the household land, using the administrative record of initial land allocated by the state to the households in the early 1980s, and find that rural-urban migration selects negatively on landholding. I also study individuals' migration decisions that were not selected on the parental migration choices versus those that were. My findings show that the selectivity problem is important. While a negative relationship between landholding and migration propensity is found for the descendants of an immobile cohort of rural residents, selectivity alters the result for the descendants of a mobile cohort of villagers and a positive relationship can emerge.

ISBN: 9781109164114Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019135
Economics, Labor.

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