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<p>This paper examines the impact of internal migration on the labor supply of urban native women in China using individual longitudinal data from 2011 to 2019 and a difference-in-differences model. We exploit exogenous variation in low-skilled migration induced by a significant relaxation of migration restrictions in 2014 for identification. Our empirical results reveal that the inflow of low-skilled migrants has a positive impact on the average market working hours of urban native women and an insignificant impact on their labor force participation. The increase in market working hours is greater for high-wage women who have a higher opportunity cost of time. Mechanism analysis shows that low-skilled migration reduces the prices of market services that are close substitutes for home production. Consequently, urban women increase their consumption of market-provided household services and reduce the time they spend on household work.</p>

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Migration, household services, and urban female labor supply: evidence from China

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    2025年11月4日

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  • Xue Qiao,
  • Lili Wang

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This paper examines the impact of internal migration on the labor supply of urban native women in China using individual longitudinal data from 2011 to 2019 and a difference-in-differences model. We exploit exogenous variation in low-skilled migration induced by a significant relaxation of migration restrictions in 2014 for identification. Our empirical results reveal that the inflow of low-skilled migrants has a positive impact on the average market working hours of urban native women and an insignificant impact on their labor force participation. The increase in market working hours is greater for high-wage women who have a higher opportunity cost of time. Mechanism analysis shows that low-skilled migration reduces the prices of market services that are close substitutes for home production. Consequently, urban women increase their consumption of market-provided household services and reduce the time they spend on household work.