Income Differential and Out-migration: the Impacts of Between-gap and Within-gap

Zhongmin Wu (zhongmin.wu@ntu.ac.uk) and Yu Zhu

Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, 2004, vol. 2, issue 1, 27-37

Abstract: In this paper, we use pooled cross-sectional data on 28 provinces to study out-migration in China. In particular, we estimate inter- and intra-province rural-to-urban migration in a simultaneous-equations model. Allowing for the joint determination of inter- and intra-migration, we find the effect of the within province rural-urban income gap on intra-province migration to be almost three times as strong as that of the between province urban wage gap on inter-province migration.

Keywords: Out-migration; income differential; China; JEL classifications: R23; I61 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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