Causes and Consequences of Return Migration: Recent Evidence from China☆

By Yaohui Zhao. 2002

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

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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 inv”
Internal migration and development : a global perspective (2005, methodology): “Zhao’s (2001) study of Chinese migrants indicates that return migrants are more likely to invest in farm machinery especially for harvesting, ploughing and threshing. Supporting return migrants in their endeavours should certainly become a policy objective. There have been some efforts in this direc”
Off-farm labor markets and the emergence of land rental markets in rural China (2002, background): “…were interviewed.11 The survey consists of two major sections; the first pertains broadly to land tenure characteristics, whereas the second is concerned with the household’s participation in labor market activities, including off-farm migration decisions and their consequences (Zhao, 2002).”
Migration, local off-farm employment, and agricultural production efficiency: evidence from China (2015, neutral): “…consumption and reduce exposure to shocks affecting agricultural production (Giles 2006); (c) encourage investment in agricultural productive assets (Zhao 2002), housing and other consumer durable goods (de Brauw and Rozelle 2008), and children’s education (Chen et al. 2009a); and, (d) contribute…”
Self-employment and intention of permanent urban settlement: Evidence from a survey of migrants in China’s four major urbanising areas (2015, background): “As a result, the growing body of literature on China’s internal migration (De Brauw and Rozelle, 2008; Hare, 1999; Lu and Song, 2006; Ma, 2001; Wang and Zuo, 1997; Zhao, 1999, 2002; Zhu, 2002) has focused exclusively on temporary migration.”
Land Rental Markets in the Process of Rural Structural Transformation: Productivity and Equity Impacts in China (2008, background): “2000), with far-reaching social and economic implications (Zhao 2002).”
Success or Failure: Selectivity and Reasons of Return Migration in Sichuan and Anhui, China (2006, background): “Recent economic slowdown in cities and massive layoffs of workers from state-owned enterprises have put further pressure on city governments to enact antimigration policies (Zhao, 2002).”
Migration, Labor Market Flexibility, and Wage Determination in China: A Review (2005, neutral): “The exact number of migrants is open to dispute (Rozelle et al. 1999), but numbers cited in Sicular and Zhao (2002) show that the volume of rural-to-urban migration more than doubled, from 8.9 million in 1989 to 23.0 million in 1994 (Table II).”
Return migrants: The rise of new entrepreneurs in rural China (2010, methodology): “Zhao (2002) also finds that return migrants invest twice more in productive farm assets as compared to non-migrants but she finds no evidence of returnees being more likely to participate in non-farm work than non-migrants.”
Moving off the farm: Land institutions to facilitate structural transformation and agricultural productivity growth in China (2012, background): “While high incidence of migration by the poor (de Brauw, Huang, Rozelle, Zhang, & Zhang, 2002) could in principle reduce poverty in sending communities (Zhao, 2002), actual impacts are less clear (Du, Park, & Wang, 2005).”
The interregional migration of human capital and its regional consequences: a review (2017, background): “Zhao (2002) studies the consequences of return migration to rural areas in China and finds that return migrants invest more in farm machinery relative to nonmigrants, thereby improving labour productivity in agriculture in the source region.”
Left behind to farm ? women's labor re-allocation in rural China (2009, neutral): “There was a rapid increase in the migration of men of all ages to jobs in urban areas (Zhao 2002).”