社会网的教育溢出、个体教育回报与农民工工资——基于代际的比较研究

Network Spillover,Education Return and the Earnings of Rural Migrants in China:An Inter-generational Perspective

采用RUMIC2009实地调查数据,对农民工社会网的教育溢出和教育回报进行代际比较的研究发现:以关系最亲密的三个关系人为代表的农民工社会网存在显著的教育溢出效应。进一步研究发现,农民工社会网的教育溢出效应和其自身的教育回报存在显著的代际差异:第一代农民工社会网络的教育溢出和自身的教育回报都显著高于新生代农民工。在进行了内生性和稳健性检验后,上述结论仍然成立。这一研究对于新型城镇化背景下新老两代农民工的替代对产业转型升级和城市社区建设的推进政策制定具有参考意义。

We examine spillover effects of social network and education returns for Chinese rural - urban migrants. In particular, this paper focuses on the differential effects of social network and education returns between the young generation and the old. Using a newly - added domestic migrants sample from RUMIC2009 survey, we find that migrants＇ social network, represented by three closest persons, has a significant education spillover effect on their earnings. The paper also indicates that the aforementioned spillover effects and the ed- ucation returns both differ in generations, namely, compared to the younger generation, the spillover effects and the education returns of the old are significantly larger. The results are robust when concerning about the potential problem of endogeneity. One valuable implicative suggestion from this paper is that the two generations of migrants respectively play distinctive roles in the process of urbanization, through which not only the migrants but also the administrative benefits in the industry upgrading and the urban community construction.