Publications [#314236] of Yi Zeng

Papers Published

1. Ma, Z; Liaw, KL; Zeng, Y, Migration in the urban-rural hierarchy of China: insights from the microdata of the 1987 National Survey., Environment and Planning A, vol. 29 no. 4 (April, 1997), pp. 707-730, ISSN 0308-518X [doi]
   (last updated on 2023/06/01)

   Abstract:
   Microdata from the 1987 National Population Survey are used to analyze internal migration in China in the 1980s. The focus is on the impact of migration policies on rural-urban migration. "There are two main findings. First, although the migration policy resulted in a very low migration level and systematic distortions in migration schedules, its encouragement of downward migrations was very ineffective, whereas its control on rural-to-urban migrations was partially weakened by the strong upward aspirations of rural families awakened by recent economic reform. Consequently, net in-migration contributed substantially to the growth both of city and of town populations. Second, although the level of education had a strong positive effect on the migration propensities both of males and of females in general, it had a strong negative effect on the migration propensities of females at the time of marriage, a finding which suggests that the families at subsistence income level tended to marry their daughters to grooms in other communities in order to reduce the risk of familial income shortfalls."