Volume 34 - Article 6 | Pages 175–202
Gender Inequalities in Employment and Wage-earning among Economic Migrants in Chinese Cities
By Min Qin, James Brown, Sabu S. Padmadas, Li Bohua, Qi Jianan, Jane Falkingham
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