Migrant Labor Markets and the Welfare of Rural Households in the Developing World: Evidence from China
By A. de Brauw, J. Giles. Social Science Research Network, 2008
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In this paper, the authors examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of rural households in China. The authors find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and that this effect is stronger for poorer households within villages. Household income per capita and non-durable consumption per capita both increase with out-migration, and increase more for poorer households. The authors also establish a causal relationship between increased out-migration and investment in housing and durable goods assets, and these effects are also stronger for poorer households. The authors do not find robust evidence, however, to support a connection between increased migration and investment in productive activity. Instead, increased migration is associated with two significant changes for poorer households: increases both in the total labor supplied to productive activities and in the land per capita managed by the household. In examining the effect of migration, we pay considerable attention to developing and examining our identification strategy.
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- Rural-Urban Migration in Developing Countries: Lessons from the Literature (2021, background): “De Brauw and Giles (2018) find significant increases in consumption in Chinese rural areas, especially for poorer households, and in investments of both poorer and richer households.”
- Village Political Economy, Land Tenure Insecurity, and the Rural to Urban Migration Decision: Evidence from China (2014, background): “As migration for work generally contributed to higher earnings and consumption of China’s rural residents (de Brauw and Giles, 2008), one direction for future work on the effects of insecure property rights would be to examine the effects of insecure property rights on measures of income and…”
- Can China’s Rural Elderly Count on Support from Adult Children? Implications of Rural-to-Urban Migration (2010, background): “Studies of the impact of migration on migrant households suggest that migration is associated with higher income and consumption ( de Brauw and Giles 2008; Du et al. 2005), facilitates risk-coping and risk-management (Giles, 2006; Giles and Yoo 2007), and is associated with higher levels of local i”