报告题目: Do Rural Migrants Benefit from Urban Labor Market Agglomeration Economies? Evidence from Chinese Cities
报告人:傅十和,西南财经大学经济与管理研究院
时间:4月21日上午10:00-11:30
地点:经济管理学院602会议室
报告人简介:傅十和,现任西南财经大学经济管理研究院教授。2005年毕业于美国波士顿学院,获经济学博士学位,主要研究方向为城市经济学、劳动经济学、公共经济学和宏观经济学。2007获教育部“新世纪优秀人才支持计划”资助、2007年获国家国家社科基金重点课题“城市增长与房地产价格”资助。曾任厦门大学王亚南经济研究院副教授。已在城市经济学、劳动经济学和公共经济学等领域的权威杂志,比如Urban Studies, Journal of Regional Science,Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Labor Economics和China Economic Review等发表英文文章10多篇,以及在《经济研究》等中文杂志发表中文文章多篇;对于英文的经济学写作出版书籍一本。
Abstract: We combine the 2005 China Inter-Census Population Survey data and the 2004 China Manufacturing Census to test whether workers, particularly rural migrants, benefit from labor market Marshallian externalities in manufacturing industries in Chinese cities. We find that workers in general, and rural migrants in particular, benefit from labor market pooling effect (measured by total employment in a city-industry cell) and human capital externalities (measured by share of workers with a college degree or above in a city-industry cell). This finding is robust to various sorting bias tests. However, rural migrants benefit much less compared with local or urban workers, possibly because rural migrants suffer from lack of social network and from double ―discrimination‖ in terms of being both ―rural and ―migrants. Our findings have policy implications on how Chinese cities can attract skilled workers during the rapid urbanization process coupled with global competition.