The Peer Effect on Migrant Workers Job Mobility and Wages in China

摘要：

With the less restrictions put on mobility of the rural populations, more and more people of the rural identity move to the urban cities, engaging in nonfarm jobs, to be migrant workers. The paper aims at analyzing the peer effect on migrant workers job mobility and wages with the data of Chinese Household Income Project Survey (CHIPs) in the year 2008, using the method of econometrics. The results are as follows: firstly, the peer effect have a negative impact on migrant workers wages, that is to say, the peer effect crowds out the price mechanism of the labor market in urban China; secondly, the peer effect impedes migrant workers job mobility; thirdly, migrant workers can earn more wages by increasing their job mobility, which is more significant at the both ends of the income distribution presented by the quantile regressions, an increase on the strength of impediment above the middle quantiles and not significant other else.

关键词： Peer effect Migrant workers Job mobility Wages

作者: JIN Zhang-feng WANG Tong-yi

作者单位: College of Public Administration, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, P.R. China, 310027

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2012 International Conference on Public Administration(8th)(2012年公共管理国际会议 ICPA)

会议地点: 印度海德拉巴

会议语种:英文

页码: 122-128

在线出版日期: 2012-10-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）