Minimum Wage Disparities and Internal Migration: Evidence From China
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Keywords
Minimum wage; Internal migration; China; Regional wage disparities; Instrumental variable strategy;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J38 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Public Policy
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CNA-2025-06-09 (China)
- NEP-LAB-2025-06-09 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-MIG-2025-06-09 (Economics of Human Migration)
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