Mapping Modes of Rural Labour Migration in China

Sylvie Démurger

No 1209, Working Papers from Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Université de Lyon

Abstract: Internal labour migration has become an important part of the process of China’s industrialization and urbanisation in the 2000s. Using micro data for the year 2007, this chapter attempts to contribute to a better understanding of the motives of and the constraints to labour mobility in China. Drawing on various empirical investigations at the household level, it examines both the decision and the level of migration and provides a mapping of the main factors driving different types of labour mobility across space (by destination) and time (by duration).

Keywords: rural-urban migration; destination; duration; migration networks; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 O15 O53 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev, nep-mig and nep-tra
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Working Paper: Mapping modes of rural labour migration in China (2012)
Working Paper: Mapping modes of rural labour migration in China (2012)
Working Paper: Mapping Modes of Rural Labour Migration in China (2012)
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