The Two-Tier Labor Market in Urban China

2001/09/01 by Xin Meng, Junsen Zhang · 510 citations
Social Sciences · #China #Demographic economics #Economic growth #Economics #Educational attainment #Geography #Labour economics #Migrant workers #Migration and Labor Dynamics #Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy #Political science #Productivity #Rural area #Socioeconomics #Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies #Wage

paper · doi:10.1006/jcec.2001.1730

published in Journal of Comparative Economics 29(3), 485-504 (Elsevier BV)

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