教育程度提高了农民工的幸福感吗——来自2015年中国企业—员工匹配调查的证据

DOES EDUCATION IMPROVE MIGRANT WORKERS' HAPPINESS——Empirical Evidence from China Employer-employee Survey of 2015

在城市化进程不断加快的背景下,教育投入是否为农民工带来了非货币化的收益——幸福感?基于2015年"中国企业—员工匹配调查"(CEES)数据,本文采用单方程回归和联立方程估计的似不相关回归进行实证检验。结果显示,目前教育程度对我国农民工幸福感具有较为稳健的负向效应。中介效应的检验结果表明,加班时间、职位晋升和城市融入感这三个因素显著强化了教育对农民工幸福感的负向作用,而社保水平则显著减弱了这一负效应。

Under the background of the accelerating process of urbanization, this paper discusses whether education has brought the migrant workers nonmonetary benefits of happiness. Based on ＂China Employer-employee Surveys＂ （CEES） data in 2015, this study respectively applies the identifying strategy of the single equation regression and SUR model. The result indicates that the level of education has a moderate negative effect on migrant workers＇ happiness in China. The testing results of the mediation effect show that overtime work, promotion and the sense of integrating into the city have significantly strengthened the negative effect on this effect, whereas social security has declined this negative effect.