Do Employers Prefer Undocumented Workers? Evidence from China's Hukou System
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Keywords
undocumented migrants; hukou; China; temporary migration;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
- R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CNA-2014-07-13 (China)
- NEP-DEM-2014-07-13 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2014-07-13 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAB-2014-07-13 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2014-07-13 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-MIG-2014-07-13 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-TRA-2014-07-13 (Transition Economics)
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