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Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China

Published:2022-06-01 Issue:6 Volume:112 Page:1885-1914
ISSN:0002-8282
Container-title:American Economic Review
language:en
Short-container-title:American Economic Review

Author:

Imbert Clement¹,Seror Marlon²,Zhang Yifan³,Zylberberg Yanos⁴

Affiliation:

1. University of Warwick, BREAD, CEPR and J-PAL (email: )

2. Université du Québec à Montréal, DIAL, Institut Convergences Migrations (email: )

3. Chinese University of Hong Kong (email: )

4. University of Bristol, CEPR, CESifo (email: )

Abstract

How does rural-urban migration shape urban production in developing countries? We use longitudinal data on Chinese manufacturing firms between 2000 and 2006, and exploit exogenous variation in rural-urban migration induced by agricultural income shocks for identification. We find that, when immigration increases, manufacturing production becomes more labor intensive and productivity declines. We investigate the reorganization of production using patent applications and product information. We show that rural-urban migration induces both labor-oriented technological change and the adoption of labor intensive product varieties. (JEL D24, L23, L60, O33, P25, P31, R23)

Publisher

American Economic Association

Subject

Economics and Econometrics

Link

https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/aer.20191234

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