Title: Spatial Mismatch, Enclave Effect and Migrant Worker Employment and Income: Empirical Evidence from Yunnan, China
Speaker: Dr. Fan Yuqing
Time: 3 pm, April 29, 2019
Location: Main Building 216
Speaker profile:
Fan Zhaoqing, male, graduated from Monash University, Australia with a Ph.D. in Management.He is currently an Assistant Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of Western Sydney School of Business and a Fellow of the Institute of Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney.He was an assistant professor of business and economics at the Department of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham Ningbo, China.Currently, he is mainly engaged in human resources management and organizational behavior, employment relations, supply chain management and sustainable development, corporate social responsibility, immigration research and urbanization, and social policy research.The research topics include: (1) how institutional factors affect corporate social responsibility behavior; (2) how migrant workers integrate into urban life and work; (3) comparison of the health status of ethnic minority and Han children; (4) how trade unions promote multinational corporations Productivity; (5) collectivist culture and team innovation.
Introduction:
The acceleration of China's urbanization process has caused migrant workers to experience more and more spatial mismatches.Although the spatial mismatch effect and the enclave effect may have different effects on the employment of migrant workers at the same time, the existing research does not separately analyze the effects of these two effects on employment and income.This study examines the effects of spatial dislocation and enclave effects of migrant workers in Yunnan provinces in underdeveloped areas of western China on individual employment and household income of migrant workers.This study is based on cross-sectional data from the 2015 survey of urban migrant workers in Yunnan Province.After controlling for other influencing factors, the tool variable Probit model and the two-stage least squares model were used to estimate the impact of residential site selection, commuting time and social network on migrant workers' employment and household income.The empirical results show that commuting time has no significant impact on the employment of migrant workers, but has a significant negative impact on the household income of migrant workers.The number of relatives and friends of individual migrant workers has also had a significant positive impact on their employment and income.These marginal effects are different in different types of cities.Migrant workers living in large cities are more likely to increase employment prospects and increase income.Overall, this finding suggests that there is a spatial dislocation effect in the Chinese labor market and a spillover effect of social networks.The robustness test shows that the conclusions drawn by the model are valid.By expanding the existing research conclusions, the main contribution of this study is to estimate the effects of spatial mismatch and enclave effects on the employment and income of migrant workers.
