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Unequal Occupational Mobilities Between Rural Migrant And Urban Resident Workers In Urban China

Zhang, C.

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Authors

C. Zhang



Abstract

The current scholarship on inequality of occupational attainment between rural migrant workers (RMW) and urban resident workers (URW) is largely dominated by evidence suggesting a landscape of occupational segregation, whilst there is a lack of studies researching the equality of occupational mobility. To fill this gap, this study compares the occupational mobilities between RMW and URW in China's urban labor market. Three heatmaps are used to visualize the differences between these two groups in the outflow distributions of occupational mobility. The results show a marked disadvantage of RMW's mobility into white-collar occupations and a relatively high tendency for them to move to or to stay in the manual and agricultural occupations.

Citation

Zhang, C. (2020). Unequal Occupational Mobilities Between Rural Migrant And Urban Resident Workers In Urban China. Frontiers in Sociology, 5, Article 55. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.00055

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jun 22, 2020
Online Publication Date Sep 4, 2020
Publication Date 2020-09
Deposit Date Apr 10, 2020
Publicly Available Date Sep 4, 2020
Journal Frontiers in Sociology
Publisher Frontiers Media
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 5
Article Number 55
DOI https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2020.00055

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Copyright © 2020 Zhang. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.




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