Social Identity and Labor Market Outcomes of Internal Migrant Workers

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Previous research on internal mobility has neglected the role of local identity contrary to studies analyzing international migration. Examining social identity and labor market outcomes in China, the country with the largest internal mobility in the world, closes the gap. Instrumental variable estimation and careful robustness checks suggest that identifying as local associates with higher migrants' hourly wages and lower hours worked, although monthly earnings seem to remain largely unchanged. Migrants with strong local identity are more likely to use local networks in job search, and to obtain jobs with higher average wages and lower average hours worked, suggesting the value of integration policies.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 716 [pre.]

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Time Allocation and Labor Supply ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
• Subject: assimilation ; social identity ; labor market ; migration ; internal mobility ; China's Great Migration

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Cai, Shu ; Zimmermann, Klaus F.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Global Labor Organization (GLO)
• (where): Essen
• (when): 2024

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/281118
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET