The Migration and Education Decisions of Young Women from Rural China

主     讲：邢春冰　　北京师范大学经济与工商管理学院

主     持：刘瑞明　　中国人民大学国家发展与战略研究院

时     间：2019年4月3日（周三）14:00-15:30

地     点：中国人民大学崇德西楼（原科研楼A座）815会议室

摘 要

In this paper, we study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities of college education. We show that women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, and the surplus of young women disappeared in recent years. We propose that the limited chance of permanent migration due to household registration restriction and an earlier return time relative to men are the major reasons that rural women migrate at a younger age. When China’s higher education expansion increased women’s chance of permanent migration, women stay in school longer and surplus women in young migrants vanished. Empirical evidence is consistent with this hypothesis. The migrate-for-marriage mechanism (Edlund 2005) is only consistent with part of the empirical evidence. No consistent evidence suggests that the demand for young women is larger than that for the old in the urban labor market.

主讲人简介：

邢春冰，经济学博士，2006年毕业于北京大学光华管理学院。现为北京师范大学经济与工商管理学院教授，博士生导师，德国劳动经济学研究所（IZA）研究员。主要研究领域是中国的城乡移民、工资结构、人力资本。在Journal of Banking and Finance、International Labour Review、Journal of Housing Economics、China Economic Review、Economics of Transition、《经济研究》、《管理世界》、《经济学季刊》等国内外期刊发表论文40余篇。

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