TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Rupelle, Maëlys de la
AU  - Quheng, Deng
AU  - Li, Shi
AU  - Vendryes, Thomas
        TI  - Land Rights Insecurity and Temporary Migration in Rural China
        PY  - 2009/Dec/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4668
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp4668
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - migration
KW  - land rights insecurity
KW  - China
KW  - semiparametric censored regression models
        ER  -