Sylvie Démurger

CNRS Research Professor at GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne

Sylvie Démurger is CNRS Research Professor at GATE Lyon Saint-Etienne. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Paris 1. Her main fields of research are development economics, labour economics, migration and inequalities, applied to the Chinese case. Her recent research work focuses on labour market segmentation in urban China, occupational choice in rural China, the analysis of the impact of forest resources protection on rural household economic welfare in rural China, and the motives and constraints to labour mobility in China.