The Role of Migrant Networks in Labor Migration: The Case of China

By Yaohui Zhao. 2003

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Migration and Children's Welfare in China: The Schooling and Health of Children Left behind (2010, background): “Previous studies have shown that individual characteristics such as age or education attainment are important determinants of migration decision (Zhao, 2003).”
• The effect of parental labor migration on children’s educational progress in rural china (2011, background): “Such networks have been shown to increase the likelihood of migration as past migrants can assist new ones in establishing contacts, finding housing, and securing jobs ( Zhao 2003 ).”
• Household Livelihood Strategies and Dependence on Agriculture in the Mountainous Settlements in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, China (2015, background): “These networks not only provide information for workers but can also provide financial assistance, life care, and emotional support, especially for moderate external risks [32,33].”
• The impact of parental migration on children’s school performance in rural China (2014, background): “The cluster-effect variable, proposed by Benjamin(1992), is calculated as the average number of migrant parents of other students in a particular school, this is a proxy for local migration situation because current studies show that migrating neighbours can play a significant role in facilitating t”
• Migration, local off-farm employment, and agricultural production efficiency: evidence from China (2015, unknown): “The existing literature on internal migration in China (Zhang et al. 2002; Du et al. 2005; Zhao 2003) typically shows that migrants are generally younger members.”