The determinants of job choice by rural labor migrants in Shanghai

By K. Roberts. 2001

120 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f62927b57fef5d5a89f5793f6766d85e89ace16d

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In Political Science and International Relations

1. Russell Smyth *
2. Qingguo Zhai
3. I. Nielsen

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1. Russell Smyth *
2. Qingguo Zhai
3. I. Nielsen
4. Sefa Awaworyi Churchill
5. V. Marisetty

Citations in the corpus

• The Impact of Aging Agricultural Labor Population on Farmland Output: From the Perspective of Farmer Preferences (2015, background): “Roberts conjectured that village-based networks are important in channeling migrants into particular occupations and destinations, undermining the notion of a “blind” migration from rural areas to coastal cities during China’s rapid economic transition [20].”
• Subjective Well-Being of China’s Off-Farm Migrants (2010, background): “" They do not want to work [in these sorts of] jobs which they do not consider honorable " (Laidoff Workers, 1998 cited in Roberts, 2001).”