The determinants of job choice by rural labor migrants in Shanghai

China Economic Review

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 15-39

  Roberts, Kenneth D ^a  

^a SOUTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Employment; J21; J61; Migrant labor; O15

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010301610     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1043-951X(01)00041-4     Document Type: Article

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