Long, Wenjin; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
two thirds of rural-urban migrants found their employment through family members, relatives, friends or acquaintances …. This paper investigates why the use of social network to find jobs is so prevalent among rural-urban migrants in China, and … whether migrants face a wage penalty as a result of adopting this job search method. We find evidence of positive selection …