Journal
WORK EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIETY
Volume 34, Issue 5, Pages 789-808Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0950017019870754
Keywords
economic outcomes; hometown ties; migrant networks; migrant workers in China
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71490731]
- China's National Social Science Foundation [19CRK015]
- Ministry of Education in China Project of Humanities and Social Sciences [16JJD840013]
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Migrant networks have long been regarded as helpful for facilitating migration and assimilation. However, research examining the influence of migrant networks on labour market outcomes for migrants has provided mixed results. This article investigates the impact of hometown ties on migrants' labour market outcomes in the context of Chinese internal migration, by utilizing data from migrants in Beijing to perform statistical analyses of income and informal employment (i.e. employment without legal documents). After adjusting for the potential bias that results from the workers' self-selectivity into the use of hometown ties in finding jobs, the analyses show that the hourly income of migrants is lower if they depend on hometown ties to find jobs. Also, migrants who rely on hometown ties for jobs are more likely to be informally employed, which has a detrimental effect on their overall welfare.
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