The rise of migration and the fall of self employment in rural China's labor market

China Economic Review

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 573-584

  Wang, Xiaobing ^a   Huang, Jikun ^a   Zhang, Linxiu ^a   Rozelle, Scott ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Migration; Rural China; Self employment; Wages

Indexed keywords

EID: 82155167623     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2011.07.005     Document Type: Article

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