01064nam a22001457a 4500 521179 521179 221226b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Imbert, Clement et al 36393 Migrants and firms: Evidence from China The American Economic Review 112(6), Jun, 2022: p.1885-1914 How does rural-urban migration shape urban production in developing countries? We use longitudinal data on Chinese manufacturing firms between 2000 and 2006, and exploit exogenous variation in rural-urban migration induced by agricultural income shocks for identification. We find that, when immigration increases, manufacturing production becomes more labor intensive and productivity declines. We investigate the reorganization of production using patent applications and product information. We show that rural-urban migration induces both labor-oriented technological change and the adoption of labor intensive product varieties. – Reproduced The American Economic Review MIGRATION AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 395229 IIPA IIPA 2022-12-26 112(6), Jun, 2022: p.1885-1914 AR127735 2022-12-26 AR