Anatomy of the Wage Gap between Local and Migrant Workers in Urban China: New Evidence from Matched Data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shu Cai ◽  
Xingjian Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Matched Data ◽  
New Evidence

The Plight of Rural Migrant Workers in Urban China

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rongwei Chu ◽  
James W. Gentry ◽  
Jie Fowler Gao ◽  
Xin Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Rural Migrant ◽  
Rural Migrant Workers

The Gender Wage Gap in Urban China

2021 ◽  
Vol 98 ◽  
pp. 137-164
Author(s):  
Hye‑ryun Weon
Keyword(s):  
Gender Wage Gap ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Urban China

Civil Rights Enforcement and the Racial Wage Gap

2021 ◽  
Vol 111 ◽  
pp. 196-200
Author(s):  
Jamein P. Cunningham ◽  
Jose Joaquin Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Racial Inequality ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
District Courts ◽  
Wage Gaps ◽  
Gender And Race ◽  
Racial Wage Gap ◽  
New Evidence

We present new evidence on three measures of civil rights enforcement--litigation, judge dismissal, and plaintiff win rates--across US district courts from 1979 to 2016. Across courts, higher shares of Republican judges are associated with higher dismissal rates regardless of court composition in terms of gender and race. Further, we find that states with higher litigation rates also exhibit higher racial wage gaps, whereas states with higher judge dismissal (plaintiff win) rates experience higher (lower) racial wage gaps. Our results highlight the importance of legal institutions on the persistence of racial inequality.

scholarly journals Regional Heterogeneity of Migrant Rent Affordability Stress in Urban China: A Comparison between Skilled and Unskilled Migrants at Prefecture Level and Above

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 5920 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li ◽  
Liu ◽  
Qi
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Spatial Regression ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
High Rent ◽  
Income Ratio ◽  
Spatial Regression Analysis

Rental housing unaffordability has been widely used to assess the housing poverty problem among immigrants in the developed and developing countries. China is experiencing an unprecedented urbanization process, with two-thirds of its 250 million migrants now being sheltered in private rental housing in the host cities. In this paper, we aimed to examine the rental housing unaffordability problems faced by migrant workers in urban China and provide policy recommendations for a more accessible and affordable migrant housing provision system. We used the household data on China’s Migrant Dynamics Monitoring Survey (MDMS), released in 2016, across China’s 329 prefecture-level cities and above to look into the sociality and spatiality of migrant rent expenses and rent-income ratio at the prefecture-level cities and above. The statistical tests were conducted to examine the socio- and spatial-variance of these rent stress indexes, and it was found that educational level is a significant and quite powerful indicator in predicting who will or will not assume the heavier rental housing pressure. We then continued to reveal the different spatiality of high-rent-stress migrants across the high- and low-skilled categories. An agglomeration of the high-skilled high-rent-stress migrants was witnessed in the coastal growth engines of urban clusters, while a more spillover-like pattern among the low-skilled high-rent-stress migrants was reported in our study. An ordinary least square and spatial regression analysis was conducted to explain their respective mechanisms.

scholarly journals Young Pioneers, Vitality, and Commercial Gentrification in Mudan Street, Changchun, China

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 3113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Zuopeng Ma ◽  
Dawei Li ◽  
Wei Liu ◽  
Yao Tong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Governance Strategies ◽  
Culture Production ◽  
New Evidence

The pioneers who started the gentrification process have contributed significantly to the activation of gentrified neighborhoods, but are often overlooked in top-down urban governance strategies. We studied the core participants, who were avant-garde café owners, in the initial stage of the commercial gentrification of Mudan Street in Changchun, China. By participatory observations and in-depth interviews, we closely investigated the statuses, behaviors, and preferences of the early gentrifiers, their contributions to block revivals, and the impacts of urban renewal policies on the gentrifiers themselves. Our conclusions are as follows. Most early gentrifiers were young and highly educated. They started the process of gentrification by youth culture production, which exhibited idealistic operating behaviors, such as the decoration of shops, creation of cultural atmospheres, and organization of cultural activities. They were the pioneers who drove bottom-up block renewal, reshaped traditional blocks into youth cultural consumption centers, and stimulated commercial vitality. However, commercialization was followed by soaring rents and increasing business competition that have forced many pioneers with low economic capital to leave. Furthermore, urban governance has had strong impacts on block renewal and gentrification. Inclusive management has promoted bottom-up neighborhood renewal, whereas arbitrary management has quickly destroyed the cultural landscape and business atmosphere, thereby accelerating the displacement of the pioneers. This study provides new evidence for gentrification theories, and offers a practical reflection for urban governance by constructing the profiles of early gentrifiers and discussing the paradox of gentrification in the context of urban China.

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