The Rumic Longitudinal Survey: Fostering Research on Labor Markets in China

23 Pages Posted: 4 Jan 2014 Last revised: 16 Apr 2023

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Mehtap Akgüc

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS); IZA

Corrado Giulietti

Department of Economics

Klaus F. Zimmermann

Global Labor Organization (GLO); UNU-MERIT; Maastricht University, Department of Economics; Free University Berlin; University of Bonn; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); Journal of Population Economics

Abstract

This paper describes the Longitudinal Survey on Rural Urban Migration in China (RUMiC), a unique data source in terms of spatial coverage and panel dimension for research on labor markets in China. The survey is a collaboration project between the Australian National University, Beijing Normal University and the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), which makes data publicly available to the scientific community by producing Scientific Use Files. The paper illustrates the structure, sampling frame and tracking method of the survey, and provides an overview of the topics covered by the dataset, and a review of the existing studies based on RUMiC data.

Keywords: migration, China, household survey, labor markets

JEL Classification: C81, J01, P36, R23

Suggested Citation

Akgüc, Mehtap and Giulietti, Corrado and Zimmermann, Klaus F., The Rumic Longitudinal Survey: Fostering Research on Labor Markets in China. IZA Discussion Paper No. 7860, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2374641 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2374641

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