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Table 8 Marginal effects of multinomial logit results (by migration duration)

From: Are migrants discriminated against in Chinese urban labour markets?

Rural migrants	Non-recent		Recent
	Self-employed	No contract	Self-employed	No contract
Age	0.129***	-0.013	0.127***	-0.028***
	(0.018)	(0.014)	(0.011)	(0.007)
Age2	-0.001***	0.000	-0.001***	0.000***
	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)
Female	-0.382***	-0.079**	-0.612***	-0.169***
	(0.039)	(0.032)	(0.028)	(0.018)
Junior middle school	-0.486***	-0.413***	-0.590***	-0.526***
	(0.044)	(0.039)	(0.035)	(0.027)
Senior middle school	-1.000***	-0.903***	-1.057***	-0.988***
	(0.059)	(0.050)	(0.048)	(0.033)
College and above	-2.325***	-1.351***	-1.615***	-1.428***
	(0.197)	(0.107)	(0.123)	(0.065)
Unmarried	-0.701***	0.286***	-1.211***	-0.020
	(0.079)	(0.051)	(0.050)	(0.028)
N	25482		69139
Urban migrants	Non-recent		Recent
	Self-employed	No contract	Self-employed	No contract
Age	0.124***	-0.036	0.156***	-0.081***
	(0.036)	(0.028)	(0.025)	(0.015)
Age2	-0.001***	0.000	-0.002***	0.001***
	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)	(0.000)
Female	-0.084	0.086	-0.123**	0.113***
	(0.078)	(0.062)	(0.057)	(0.037)
Junior middle school	-0.314**	-0.269*	-0.569***	-0.413***
	(0.144)	(0.139)	(0.124)	(0.108)
Senior middle school	-1.024***	-0.759***	-1.287***	-1.032***
	(0.147)	(0.139)	(0.125)	(0.108)
College and above	-2.089***	-1.394***	-2.346***	-1.724***
	(0.169)	(0.145)	(0.137)	(0.110)
Unmarried	-0.455***	0.314***	-0.884***	0.154***
	(0.145)	(0.088)	(0.097)	(0.055)
N	6608		15606

Notes: *, **, and *** represent significance levels of 10%, 5%, and 1%, respectively.
Samples include individuals aged 16–60 years and who are out of school.
Migrants that migrated for reasons not related to employment were dropped.
The base category in the multinomial logit is formal employment.
Regional dummies are included in the regressions but not reported.
Standard errors are reported in brackets.
Source: 1% population survey of China (2005).

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