【题  目】Internal Migration, Household Services and Urban Female Labor Supply: Evidence from China

【时  间】2024年5月21日（星期二），14:00-15:30

【地  点】后主楼1610会议室

【主讲人】乔雪 教  授（中国人民大学经济学院）

【主持人】刘盼 副教授（北京师范大学经济与工商管理学院）

摘要：Internal migrants in developing economies account for a significant fraction of employment in services that are close substitutes of home production. This paper examines the impact of internal migration on the time-use decisions of urban native women in China using longitudinal individual data between 2011 and 2019. We exploit exogenous variation in low-skilled migration induced by Hukou reforms and agricultural income shocks for identification. The results show that the inflow of low-skilled migrants increases the average market working hours of urban native women, while has no significant impact on their labor force participation. The increase in working hours is greater for high-wage women who have higher opportunity cost of time and women with care responsibilities. Further study shows that low-skilled migration contributes to a decline in the prices of household services in cities, an increase in the consumption of market services by urban households, and a decline in the time devoted to housework by native women. Our results hence imply that the inflow of migrants helps relax the time constraint faced by urban native women.

报告人简介：

乔雪，中国人民大学经济学院教授，博士生导师，中国人民大学“杰出学者”，兼任中国运筹学会博弈论专业委员会第四届理事，国家社科重大基金首席专家。曾任清华大学经济管理学院副教授，本科毕业于北京大学经济学院，博士毕业于美国爱荷华州立大学。研究方向为劳动力资源配置与经济增长，数字经济，制度与经济发展，在《经济研究》、《世界经济》、《金融研究》、《经济学》（季刊），International Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Management and Strategy, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Journal of Comparative Economics等期刊发表多篇论文, 主持国家自科基金3项。乔雪教授两度获得国家自科项目结题评估“优”，合作论文获评2019-2020年度《经济学》（季刊）唯一最佳论文奖，为国家自科基金评审专家，为Review of Economic Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics, International Economic Review, Journal of Development Economics,《经济研究》、《世界经济》、《经济学》（季刊）等期刊匿名审稿人。