1 论文标题
Migration, Remittances and Rural Employment Patterns : Evidence from China
2 作者信息
Sylvie Démurger Li Shi
3 出处和链接（比如，NBER working paper No.11000）
ftp://ftp.gate.cnrs.fr/RePEc/2012/1230.pdf
4 摘要
This paper explores the rural labor market impact of migration in China using crosssectional data on rural households for the year 2007. A switching probit model is used to estimate the impact of belonging to a migrant-sending household on the individual occupational choice categorized in four binary decisions : farm work, wage work, self-employment and housework. The paper then goes on to estimate how the impact of migration differs across different types of migrant households identified along two additional lines : remittances and migration history. Results show that individual occupational choice in rural China is responsive to migration, at both the individual and the family levels, but the impacts differ : individual migration experience favors subsequent local off-farm work, whereas at the family level, migration drives the left-behinds to farming rather than to off-farm activities. Our results also point to the interplay of various channels through which migration influences rural employment patterns.