The impact of job contact networks on wages of rural–urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach

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The impact of job contact networks on wages of rural–urban migrants in China: a switching regression approach

In nationally representative household data from the 2008 Chinese Rural to Urban Migration Survey, nearly two thirds of rural–urban migrants found their employment through family members, relatives, friends or acquaintances. This paper investigates why the use of social network to find jobs is so pr...

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Main Authors:	Long, Wenjin, Appleton, Simon, Song, Lina
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis (Routledge) 2017
Subjects:	Social network Job contact Wage Rural-urban migrant Switching regression
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41742/

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