Peer Migration in China

Yuyu Chen, Ginger Zhe Jin and Yang Yue ()

No 15671, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We aim to quantify the role of social networks in job-related migration. With over 130 million rural labors migrating to the city each year, China is experiencing the largest internal migration in the human history. Using instrumental variables in the 2006 China Agricultural Census, we find that a 10-percentage-point increase in the migration rate of co-villagers raises one's migration probability by 7.27 percent points, an effect comparable to an increase of education by 7-8 years. Evidence suggests that most of this effect is driven by co-villagers helping each other in moving cost and job search at the destination.

JEL-codes: J6 O12 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-01
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Published as Yuyu Chen & Ginger Zhe Jin & Yang Yue, 2024. "Peer Migration in China," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, vol 86(2), pages 257-313.

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