The impact of job contact networks on wages of rural-urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach

This paper investigates whether migrants face a wage penalty as a result of adopting this job search method

From:
Department for International Development
Published
24 February 2017
Country:
China
Document Type:
Journal Article
Theme:
Economic Growth
Authors:
Long, W, Appleton, S, Song, L

Abstract

In nationally representative household data from the 2008 Chinese Rural to Urban Migration Survey, nearly two thirds of rural–urban migrants found their employment through family members, relatives, friends or acquaintances.

This paper investigates why the use of social network to find jobs is so prevalent among rural–urban migrants in China, and whether migrants face a wage penalty as a result of adopting this job search method.

This is an output from the ‘Local government, economic growth and human development: Chinese lessons for Kenya and Uganda?’ project led by the University of Nottingham

Citation

Wenjin Long, Simon Appleton & Lina Song (2017) The impact of job contact networks on wages of rural–urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 15:1, 81-101, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2017.1287538

The impact of job contact networks on wages of rural-urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach

Published 24 February 2017
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