Education and Migration: The Role of Zhaosheng in China
2015/03/31
研討會日期 : 2015-03-31
時間 : 14:30
主講人 : Professor Yin-Chi Wang
主持人 : Professor Pei-Ju Liao
地點 : Conference Room B110
演講者簡介 : Professor Wang received her Ph.D. in Economics from Washington University in 2012. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her primary research fields are Growth and Development, Macroeconomics; and secondary are Family and Labor Economics, Economic Theory.
演講摘要 : Because of hukou registration system, people in China lost the freedom of migration. This paper focuses on one of the formal channels to migrate to cities: zhaosheng. To better capture the reality, we also consider the migration of rural workers, or working migration, to cities. A general equilibrium model with endogenous education migration decision is employed. The framework is calibrated to data from China and then counterfactual experiments are conducted. In particular, the abolishment of government job assignment (GJA) for college graduates in 1994 is examined in this paper. We find that, the effect of the abolishment of the GJA scheme is small, therefore providing justification for the abolishment of the GJA scheme. Although not as important as working migration, the contribution of zhaosheng to the development of China cannot be neglected.
