题   目：Migration  Costs, Labor Supply, Sorting and the Agricultural Productivity Gap

嘉   宾：盖庆恩，教授，上海财经大学

主持人：瞿茜，副教授，上海交通大学

时   间：2023年4月11日（周二）12:40-14:10

地   点：上海交通大学（徐汇校区）安泰经济与管理学院A507

内容简介：

We use a  unique panel dataset and a policy experiment as an instrument to estimate the  impact of policy-induced migration cost reductions on rural-to-urban migration  and the associated increase in labor earnings for migrant workers in China.  Our estimation shows that the observed labor earnings gap between agriculture  and non-agriculture is mainly due to large migration costs and a large  underlying productivity difference between the two sectors. Sorting plays only  a minor role in accounting for the observed sectoral earnings gap. To  interpret the reduced-form results, we construct a general equilibrium  household model with endogenous labor supply and migration that not only is  consistent with the reduced form results, but also illustrates the channel  through which the policy experiment affects migration. We then estimate the  general equilibrium model structurally and use the estimated model to quantify  the effects of various policies on migration, the labor earnings gap,  aggregate productivity, and welfare.

演讲人简介：

盖庆恩，上海财经大学教授，博导，入选上海市“曙光人才”计划、“浦江人才”计划、“ 晨光”计划等。研究方向为“三农”问题，在《经济研究》《管理世界》等国内国际权威期刊发表论文20多篇；主持国家社科重大项目子课题、国家自然科学基金面上、青年项目、教育部人文社会科学项目等省部级以上课题10多项；研究成果获第八届高等学校科学研究优秀成果奖（人文社会科学）一等奖、第十四届上海市哲学社会科学优秀成果一等、二等奖等；博士学位论文获上海市优秀博士论文；研究观点发表在《解放日报》、《内部参阅》、《乡村振兴文稿》等。

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