Arbeitspapier
Land rights insecurity and temporary migration in rural China
Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking characteristic is a high geographical and temporal mobility. Rural migrants keep going back and forth between origin villages and destination areas. In this paper, we show that this temporary feature of migration can be linked to land rights insecurity. As village land ownership remains collective and as land use rights can be periodically reallocated, individual out-migration can result in deprivation of those rights. Moreover, the intensity of this insecurity varies according to the village-level management of land and the contractual status of land plots. We use these variations to identify the effect of land rights insecurity on migration behavior. Empirical results based on representative 2002 rural data demonstrate substantial impact.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4668
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Wirtschaft
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Truncated and Censored Models; Switching Regression Models
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
Collectives; Communes; Agriculture
Land Ownership and Tenure; Land Reform; Land Use; Irrigation; Agriculture and Environment
- Subject
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Migration
land rights insecurity
China
semiparametric censored regression models
Landflucht
Binnenwanderung
Agrarboden
Bodenrecht
Agrarverfassung
Schätzung
China
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Geistige Schöpfung
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de la Rupelle, Maëlys
Quheng, Deng
Shi, Li
Vendryes, Thomas
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
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2009
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- de la Rupelle, Maëlys
- Quheng, Deng
- Shi, Li
- Vendryes, Thomas
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2009