Abstract: 

This paper discusses the effect of the levels of social network on the wage of rural - urban migrants with the applying of identity model. The empirical analysis,using the 2009 surveys for rural - urban migrants in Beijing, shows that the high - level social network can affect the migrants belonging to it and raise their wages; after controlling the effects on job seeking, the levels of social network can still influence migrants ＇ wage positively, indicating that the channel also lies in effects on productivity and behavior patterns. We get those conclusions after robustness tests and resolving the endogeneity problem by identifying ATT matching on propensity scores. Our results indicates that if the government encourages the migrants to construct new social capitals and high - level social networks, then not only the productivity and the wage of individuals can be increased,but also the return on human capital and the productivity of the whole country can be improved.

 

Key words:

Levels of Social Network; Identity Model; Wages of Rural- Urban Migrants; Average Treatment Effect

 

Reference:

Ye, J., Bo, S., Liu, C., & Zhou, Y. (2012). Social network layer and wage level of rural migrant workers. Economic Review, 2012(4), pp.31-43. （《社会网络层次与农民工工资水平》）

 

Link:

【CNKI】

http://kns.cnki.net/kcms/detail/detail.aspx?dbcode=CJFD&filename=JJPL201204005&dbname=CJFD2012&uid=WEEvREcwSlJHSldRa1FhdXNXYXFuU20xQ3lja3NiTDYxWW8wbXJVa01hQT0=$9A4hF_YAuvQ5obgVAqNKPCYcEjKensW4ggI8Fm4gTkoUKaID8j8gFw!!

 

【CQVIP】

http://lib.cqvip.com/ZK/journal.aspx?q=/82170X/201204

 

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