Are migrants discriminated against in Chinese urban labour markets?
| Autor: | Chunbing Xing, Theodora Xenogiani, Jason Gagnon |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Labour economics China media_common.quotation_subject Urban china Economics Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous) Wage Distribution (economics) Development Discrimination Economics ddc:330 J51 health care economics and organizations media_common Informal sector N35 business.industry Internal migration Migrant workers Wages social sciences Labour market O15 J7 Industrial relations behavior and behavior mechanisms population characteristics Rural area business geographic locations |
| Popis: | We use a nationally representative survey to investigate the incidence of discrimination against internal migrant workers in urban China, considering both migrants from rural areas (rural migrants) and those from other urban areas (urban migrants). We find that both rural and urban migrants are discriminated out of jobs with formal labour contracts. Results also suggest that urban migrants are compensated for working in the informal sector by earning higher wages. There is evidence however of wage discrimination against rural hukou status. A semi-parametric method suggests a larger discrimination against migrants in the upper half of the wage distribution. Discrimination against migrants seems not to decrease as their duration of stay in the urban labour market increases. JEL codes J7; J51; O15; N35 |
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