Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/110090 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8923
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large positive correlation of the city share of migrants with natives' wages. Using different sets of control variables and instruments suggests that the effect is causal. The large total migrant impact (+10% when one moves from the first to the third quartile of the migrant variable distribution) arises from gains due to complementarity with natives in the production function (+6.4%), and from gains due to agglomeration economies (+3.3%). Finally, we find some evidence of a stronger effect for skilled natives than for unskilled, as expected from theory. Overall, our findings support large nominal wage gains that can be expected from further migration and urbanisation in China.
Subjects: 
migration
urban development
agglomeration economies
wage disparities
China
JEL: 
O18
J61
R23
J31
O53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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