【题目】Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China
【时间】2019年4月22日（周一）上午10:00-11:30
【地点】经济学院302室
【主讲人】张轶凡
【主持人】杨汝岱
【摘要】This paper estimates the causal effect of rural migration on urban production in China. Using a panel of Chinese manufacturing firms, we exploit exogenous variation in rural-urban migration due to agricultural price shocks. We find that following a migrant inflow, labor costs decline and employment expands. Labor productivity decreases sharply and remains low in the medium run. A quantitative framework suggests that migration mostly benefits low-productivity firms within locations. As migrants select into high-productivity destinations, migration however strongly contributes to the equalization of factor productivity across locations.
【主讲人简介】张轶凡，香港中文大学经济系副教授。中国人民大学经济学学士、硕士，美国匹兹堡大学经济学博士，并在美国耶鲁大学从事博士后研究。兼任世界银行、亚洲开发银行咨询顾问和美国康奈尔大学中国经济研究中心研究员。研究兴趣包括国际贸易、产业组织和发展经济学等。研究成果发表于American Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of International Economics等国际知名期刊。
