scholarly journals Unequal occupational mobilities between rural migrant and urban resident workers in urban China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chong Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Occupational Mobility ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Occupational Attainment ◽  
Urban Resident ◽  
High Tendency ◽  
Rural Migrant ◽  
Urban Labor Market ◽  
Rural Migrant Workers

The current scholarship on inequality of occupational attainment between rural migrant workers (RMW) and urban resident workers (URW) is largely dominated by evidence suggesting a landscape of occupational segregation, whilst there is a lack of studies researching the equality of occupational mobility. To fill this gap, this study compares the occupational mobilities between RMW and URW in China’s urban labor market. Three heatmaps are used to visualize the differences between these two groups in the outflow distributions of occupational mobility. The results show a marked disadvantage of RMW’s mobility into white-collar occupations and a relatively high tendency for them to move to or to stay in the manual and agricultural occupations.

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

Rural migrant workers in urban China: living a marginalised life

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Fu Keung Wong ◽  
Chang Ying Li ◽  
He Xue Song
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Rural Migrant ◽  
Rural Migrant Workers

The Employment Differentials of the Industry between Rural Migrant Workers and Urban Local Low Skilled Labors

2014 ◽  
Vol 651-653 ◽  
pp. 1659-1663
Author(s):  
Xin Yang ◽  
Tian Kun Fang ◽  
Xiao Ting Tan
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Logit Model ◽  
Multinomial Logit Model ◽  
Shenyang City ◽  
Rural Migrant ◽  
Low Degree ◽  
The Government ◽  
Urban Labor Market ◽  
Survey Questionnaires ◽  
Rural Migrant Workers

Rural migrant workers and urban local low skilled labors are in the urban labor market at the same time. Though with different identities, both bear the characteristics of low degree of education. In order to explore whether there is difference in wages and employment between the two, we made a study based on 519 survey questionnaires in Shenyang City in China. We use the Multinomial logit model to estimate the possible obtained industry, and to examine factors that influence the labor obtained industry, by actual and estimated industry distribution of rural migrant workers and urban local low skill labor, we suggest that employment structure of the two have great disparity for different industries .So the government should deregulate rural rural migrant workers policy, and improve the level of human capital of migrant workers to eliminate the differences.

Consumer behavior of rural migrant workers in urban China

Cities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 106 ◽  
pp. 102856 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuangshuang Tang ◽  
Pu Hao ◽  
Jianxi Feng
Keyword(s):  
Consumer Behavior ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Rural Migrant ◽  
Rural Migrant Workers

scholarly journals The Challenges of Representing Rural Migrant Workers in China: Factors Influencing the Goals and Strategies of Labour NGOs in Beijing, Tianjin and Yunnan Province

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Ao Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Rural Migrant ◽  
Rural Migrant Workers

<p>Labour NGOs operating in mainland China have played the role of de facto representatives of rural migrant workers since their emergence in the 1990s. After their rapid development for almost two decades, the introduction of the Overseas NGOs Management Law in 2017 restricted all foreign sponsors of labour NGOs, which were their main funding source. This has greatly influenced their goals and strategic choices when representing migrant workers. However, due to increased political sensitivity, few studies have explored the current challenges they face since the law was implemented. This study identifies both the pre-2017 and post-2017 goals and strategies of labour NGOs operating in Beijing, Tianjin and Yunnan Province. It also analyses six factors affecting the NGOs’ goals and strategic choices after 2017. A case study research method is used to draw on 15 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with the founders, managers and staff working in 10 different labour NGOs in the three regions. The research results challenge the applicability of four main social movement theories learnt from the west – Resource Mobilisation (RM), Political Opportunity (PO), Transnational Advocacy Networks (TAN) and Stakeholder theory – to explain Chinese grassroots labour movements conducted by labour NGOs. The results also show that labour NGOs are experiencing a significant decline after the introduction of the Overseas NGOs Management Law, but have not withdrawn from the historical stage. Many NGOs are adjusting their goals and strategies to adapt to the changed political climate and survive. Finally, this study advocates the development of a new social movement theory which could accurately guide grassroots labour movements in the context of China.</p>

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