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:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Published
9 April 2018
Country:
China
Document Type:
Journal Article
Theme:
Economic Growth
First published:
24 February 2017
Authors:
Long, W, Appleton, S and Song, L

Abstract

In nationally representative household data from the 2008 Chinese Rural to Urban Migration Survey, nearly two thirds of rural鈥搖rban 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鈥搖rban 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 鈥楲ocal government, economic growth and human development: Chinese lessons for Kenya and Uganda?鈥� 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鈥搖rban 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

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