经济与社会研究院SEMINAR第109期

题目：Money or Marriage? The Migration of China’s Rural Women

主讲人：邢春冰，北京师范大学

时间：2018年11月5日，15:00-16:15

地点：暨南大学中惠楼106B室

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城乡移民、工资结构、人力资本。于Journal of Banking and Finance, International Labour Review, Journal of Housing Economics, China Economic Review, Economics of Transition及《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。

Abstract:

While working age men, on average, are more susceptible to migration than women in rural China, the opposite is true of the rural youths. We propose a model of joint decision of migration and human capital investment, where both women and men from rural areas maximize life-time earnings and women’s productive migration duration is shorter. The model predicts that women tend to invest less in schooling or job search and migrate earlier to exploit the rural-urban wage differential, leading to a surplus of women in young migrants. Consistent with the model, we show that women are more likely to drop out of school when facing migration opportunities and that women’s labor supply is much higher when they are young. Marriage motive is unable to explain young women’s migration because (1) women’s migration is temporary and its duration is shorter than men and (2) the migration of young women has limited (if not negligible) impacts on the marriage markets of both origin and host regions. No consistent evidence suggests that the demand for young women is larger than that for the old.