Aspirations, Adaptation and Subjective Well-Being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China.

This research is among the first to link the literatures on migration and on subjective well-being in developing countries. It poses the question: why do rural-urban migrant households settled in urban China have an average happiness score lower than that of rural households? It examines the hypothe...

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Main Authors: Knight, J, Gunatilaka, R
Formato: Working paper
Idioma:English
Publicado: Department of Economics (University of Oxford) 2008