Minimum wage and internal labor migration: Evidence from China

IF 2.3 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Pub Date : 2024-08-17 DOI:10.1016/j.jebo.2024.106695

Shuang Ma , Xuan Li , Xi Wu

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Abstract

We study the geographical allocation consequences of minimum wage, using individual-level migration data and the substantial variation over time in minimum wages across 262 counties in China. Our preferred specification shows that a 10% increase in the local minimum wage decreases the probability of outmigration by 1.52 percentage points. Using data from a major online recruitment platform, we further corroborate the main finding by showing that workers are less likely to search for a job in other cities when their city of residence experiences an increase in minimum wage.

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最低工资与国内劳动力迁移：来自中国的证据

我们利用个人层面的人口迁移数据和中国 262 个县的最低工资随时间变化的巨大差异，研究了最低工资的地域分配后果。我们首选的规范表明，当地最低工资每提高 10%，人口向外迁移的概率就会降低 1.52 个百分点。通过使用一家大型在线招聘平台的数据，我们进一步证实了这一主要发现，即当工人所在城市的最低工资标准提高时，他们到其他城市寻找工作的可能性会降低。

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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization ECONOMICS-

CiteScore

3.80

自引率

9.10%

发文量

392

期刊介绍： The Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization is devoted to theoretical and empirical research concerning economic decision, organization and behavior and to economic change in all its aspects. Its specific purposes are to foster an improved understanding of how human cognitive, computational and informational characteristics influence the working of economic organizations and market economies and how an economy structural features lead to various types of micro and macro behavior, to changing patterns of development and to institutional evolution. Research with these purposes that explore the interrelations of economics with other disciplines such as biology, psychology, law, anthropology, sociology and mathematics is particularly welcome.