Citation
Démurger, Sylvie & Li, Shi (2012). Migration, Remittances and Rural Employment Patterns: Evidence from China.Abstract
This paper explores the rural labor market impact of migration in China using cross-sectional data on rural households for the year 2007. A switching probit model is used to estimate the impact of belonging to a migrant-sending household on the individual occupational choice categorized in four binary decisions: farm work, wage work, self-employment and housework. The paper then goes on to estimate how the impact of migration differs across different types of migrant households identified along two additional lines: remittances and migration history. Results show that individual occupational choice in rural China is responsive to migration, at both the individual and the family levels, but the impacts differ: individual migration experience favors subsequent local off-farm work, whereas at the family level, migration drives the left-behinds to farming rather than to off-farm activities. Our results also point to the interplay of various channels through which migration influences rural employment patterns.
URL
https://www.gate.cnrs.fr/IMG/pdf/DL_Dec2012.pdfReference Type
ReportYear Published
2012Author(s)
Démurger, SylvieLi, Shi