The Study Of Heterogeneous Rural-urban Migrants' Different Urban Choice

With the deeply development of China's urbanization,labor mobility increasingly frequent.Labor'urban choice may affect human capital structure and then affect the development of urban economy.So,clarifying their urban choice motivation has positive practical significance.This paper use Chinese Household Income Survey data 2007 and city level data,to find out selection differences and the reason of rural-urban migrants'urban choice.Different from previous researches,this paper emphasized what kind of city migrant workers choose and the influence on individual income.Research results are as follows:(1)heterogeneous skills of rural migrant workers have different urban choices,low-skilled migrant workers are more likely to choose the city that its scale is below 5 million,medium-skilled rural migrant workers are more likely to choose super city(above 10 million),the high-skilled migrant workers may tend to choose megacity(5-10 million).(2)City average salary and industrial structure play an significant impact on urban choice.And increasing house prices will reduce rural-urban migrant workers'willingness to choose the city;Consider skill heterogeneity,high and low skills are more concerned about industrial structure,housing prices prevent low-skilled choice but have no significant effect for high-skilled migrant workers;Consider the migrant workers who original rural in smaller cities,urban wage significantly increase the probability in their city selection decisions.(3)No matter whether overcome invisible selection bias or not,low-skilled migrant workers can obtain higher real individual income in cities that its population scale under 5 million,medium and high skills get higher nominal and real incomes in big cities that population scale above 5 million.And no matter whether distinguish the heterogeneity and overcome invisible selection bias or not,the migrant workers who original rural in smaller cities get the nominal income premium in cities that its population scale above 5 million.