Are migrants discriminated against in Chinese urban labour markets?

Are gays and lesbians discriminated against in the hiring process?

Short-term migration, rural workfare programmes, and urban labour markets

Rural and urban labour markets in developing countries are integrated by migration flows, which respond to earnings opportunities at origin and destination. This is the core of the celebrated Harris and Todaro (1970) model, which shows how in equilibrium, migration flows equate expected wages between rural and urban areas. One important implication of this model is that changes in rural employm...

First depressed, then discriminated against?

Each year a substantial share of the European population suffers from major depression. This mental illness may affect individuals' later life outcomes indirectly by the stigma it inflicts. The present study assesses hiring discrimination based on disclosed depression. To this end, between May 2015 and July 2015, we sent out 288 trios of job applications from fictitious candidates to real vacan...

Heterogeneous Population and Labour Market Outcome in Urban Africa: Migrants’ Earnings in Ghana and Tanzania

Exploiting data drawn from urban household panel surveys in Ghana and Tanzania, this paper investigates how rural-to-urban migrants are performing in urban labour markets in Africa. Three types of selection issues and a simultaneity problem associated with serially correlated unobserved labour market shocks are carefully considered. While our findings are not entirely free from such econometric...

Gender inequalities in employment and wage-earning among internal labour migrants in Chinese cities

BACKGROUND Recent trends show an unprecedented feminisation of migration in China, triggered by the increasing demand for cheap labour in big cities and the availability of women in the labour market. These trends corroborate the evidence that non-agricultural work and remittance from urban labour migrants have become the major sources of rural household income. OBJECTIVE This paper investigate...