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Data for Productivity and welfare of migrants in Chinese megacities Jiajing Sun (8711571) Michael Cole (1824775) Thijs Van Rens (24810727) Eric Yan (11194279) Migrant labor -- Economic aspects -- China Migrant labor -- Social aspects -- China Migration, Internal -- Economic aspects -- China Migration, Internal -- Social aspects -- China Labor productivity -- China Public welfare -- China Migrated from ePrints We study productivity and welfare provision in megacities in China. We develop a model of internal migration to megacities under the Hukou system regulating public services to explore the impact of restricting migrants’ access to public goods/services on their overall utility and utility derived from using key public services; and quantify how migration distorts the effect of income on utility, and how migrants contribute to the productivity of high tech sectors.<br><br>Data record consists of tabular data in .tab format and a STATA do file. 2026-09-15T19:50:59Z Dataset Dataset 10.82444/warw.33820324.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Data_for_Productivity_and_welfare_of_migrants_in_Chinese_megacities/33820324 CC BY 4.0