题目: Labor Skill, Industry Structure and Migration

主讲人：马湘君

时间: 2017年11月3日13:30-14:45

地点：暨南大学中惠楼106B会议室

主办方：暨南大学经济与社会研究院

主讲人简介：

马湘君，副教授，2012年于美国弗吉尼亚大学经济学系获得博士学位，2012年9月至今就职于对外经济贸易大学国际经济贸易学院。主要研究方向为：国际贸易、应用微观经济学、城市经济学、政治经济学。在Empirical Economics, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, Review of International Economics等国际期刊发表论文多篇，并主持过国家自然科学基金青年项目等。

Abstract:

Regional migrants consist of a large share of the labor market in China. While who selects into migration has been extensively studied, there has been absence of discussion on how heterogeneous these migrants are, particularly regarding their industry choice upon migration. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between regional migrants' industry concentration and the industry structure of the source (home) province and the host city in China. Using a unique nationwide survey data of regional migrants with more than 128,000 observations in each year we find that migrants are less likely to choose industries in which their home province has comparative advantage and more likely to select into industries in which the host city has comparative advantage. To explain the empirical findings, we construct a variant of the Roy Model, which provides theoretical prediction consistent with our empirical findings.