TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Wang, Chuhong
AU  - Wang, Yonghua
AU  - Liu, Xingfei
AU  - Zhong, Jiatong
        TI  - Housing Demolition and Occupational Mobility: Evidence from China
        PY  - 2022/Nov/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 15750
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp15750
        AB  - We identify the causal impact of housing demolition on employment and occupational mobility of working-age individuals in China. We exploit housing demolition events as a quasi-natural experiment and apply a two-way fixed effects approach to overcome the potential endogeneity problem. Using data from the CHFS, we find that on the extensive margin, housing demolition creates skill waste by making individuals less likely to work; while on the intensive margin, housing demolition leads to occupational upward mobility, especially among low-skilled workers. We do not find any empirical evidence that housing demolition influences internal migration flow or migrant workers' occupational mobility.
        KW  - housing demolition
KW  - occupational mobility
KW  - skill
KW  - migrant
KW  - China
        ER  -