Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/163146 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
ADBI Working Paper No. 647
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Tokyo
Abstract: 
This paper studies the impact of migrant children on their parents' occupation choice and wage income using a dataset from a household survey conducted in 2011. We find that the heads of migrant households with school-age children earn significantly less than those who left them at their place of hukou registration. This result holds when we control for personal characteristics, migration duration, origin location, and family structure. Households migrating with school-age children have a higher probability of doing so within the prefecture/province of their hukou registration and are less likely to target coastal regions. After controlling for migration scope and destination location, the presence of children does not influence wages of migrant household heads. We also find that the presence of children below the age of six has no impact on the income of migrant household heads. Our results suggest that the hukou system still impedes labor mobility.
Subjects: 
Urban development
China, People's Republic of
JEL: 
J12
J13
J18
I28
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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