Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China

Clément Imbert, Marlon Seror, Yifan Zhang and Yanos Zylberberg

The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) from University of Warwick, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper estimates the causal effect of rural-urban migration on urban production in China. We use longitudinal data on manufacturing firms between 2001 and 2006 and exploit exogenous variation in rural-urban migration due to agricultural price shocks. Following a migrant inflow, labor costs decline and employment expands. Labor productivity decreases sharply and remains low in the medium run. A quantitative framework suggests that destinations become too labor-abundant and migration mostly benefits lowproductivity firms within locations. As migrants select into high-productivity destinations, migration however strongly contributes to the equalization of factor productivity across locations

JEL-codes: D24 J23 J61 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cna, nep-lab, nep-mig, nep-tra and nep-ure
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