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MarThe Migration and Education Decisions of Young Women from Rural China
Speaker: XING Chunbing, the Business School of Beijing Normal University
Moderator: LIU Ruiming, National Academy of Development and Strategy of RUC
Time: April 3, 2019 (Wednesday) 14:00-15:30
Venue: Meeting Room 815, Chongde Building West Wing (Keyan Building Block A）
Abstract:
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.
Speaker Profile:
XING Chunbing, Doctor of Economics, graduated from Guanghua School of Management, Peking University in 2006, is now a professor and supervisor of doctorate student at the Business School of Beijing Normal University and a research fellow at Institute for the Study of Labor in Germany (IZA). His research focuses on the rural-urban migration, salary structure and human resources in China. He has published over forty papers in domestic and foreign academic journals including Journal of Banking and Finance, International Labour Review, Journal of Housing Economics, China Economic Review, Economics of Transition, Economic Research Journal, Management World, China Economic Quarterly and others.