TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Kuhn, Peter J.
AU  - Shen, Kailing
        TI  - Do Employers Prefer Undocumented Workers? Evidence from China's Hukou System
        PY  - 2014/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8289
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8289
        AB  - We study urban Chinese employers' preferences between workers with and without a local residence permit (hukou) using callback information from an Internet job board serving private sector employers. We find that employers prefer migrant workers to locals who are identically matched to the job's requirements; these preferences are especially strong at low skill levels. We argue that migrants' higher work hours and effort help to account for employers' preferences, and present evidence that efficiency wage and intertemporal labor substitution effects might explain these hours/effort gaps.
        KW  - undocumented migrants
KW  - hukou
KW  - China
KW  - temporary migration
        ER  -