TY - JOUR
T1 - Chinese rural migrants in urban enterprises
T2 - Three perspectives
AU - Knight, John
AU - Song, Lina
AU - Huaibin, Jia
N1 - Funding Information:
John Knight, Lina Song and Jia Huaibin, Institute of Economics and Statistics, University of Oxford, St Cross Building, Oxford OX13UL. The research was conducted while Jia Huaibin was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Economics and Statistics in 1996. The authors are grateful to the British Council for funding his visit under its Academic Link arrangement between the Institute and the Ministry of Labour, People's Republic China. They are also grateful to the Ford Foundation for funding the survey on which the study is based, and to the Leverhulme Trust for its support of the research under grant F519G.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - A survey of rural migrants employed in enterprises in four Chinese cities is analysed to answer the following questions. Are the productive characteristics of migrants rewarded in the urban labour market? How do migrants compare with non-migrants in their productive characteristics, occupational attainment and pay? Do migrants have an incentive to remain with the enterprise and in the city, and what factors influence these attitudes? What determines the extent of migrant employment? Do enterprises have an incentive to employ more migrants, and how do they value migrants relative to non-migrants? How does policy influence migration: does government impede or encourage the flow of temporary migrants? Thus the process of migration is analysed from three perspectives: those of the rural migrants themselves, of their urban employers, and of the government. The survey results are combined with macroeconomic projections to consider the future of migration in China.
AB - A survey of rural migrants employed in enterprises in four Chinese cities is analysed to answer the following questions. Are the productive characteristics of migrants rewarded in the urban labour market? How do migrants compare with non-migrants in their productive characteristics, occupational attainment and pay? Do migrants have an incentive to remain with the enterprise and in the city, and what factors influence these attitudes? What determines the extent of migrant employment? Do enterprises have an incentive to employ more migrants, and how do they value migrants relative to non-migrants? How does policy influence migration: does government impede or encourage the flow of temporary migrants? Thus the process of migration is analysed from three perspectives: those of the rural migrants themselves, of their urban employers, and of the government. The survey results are combined with macroeconomic projections to consider the future of migration in China.
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U2 - 10.1080/00220389908422574
DO - 10.1080/00220389908422574
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032798217
SN - 0022-0388
VL - 35
SP - 73
EP - 104
JO - Journal of Development Studies
JF - Journal of Development Studies
IS - 3
ER -
