Occupational Segmentation and Huji Discrimination on Rural and Urban Migrants：An Analysis Based on the Age Difference

作者：Fanqiang Meng, Chu Shuai · 发表于：Cai-jing yanjiu · 年份：2018 · DOI：10.16538/j.cnki.jfe.2018.12.004 · 研究领域：Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

Considering the heterogeneity among migrants, this thesis divides migrants into groups by every five years and utilizes China Migrants Dynamic Survey in 2016 to examine age-specific issues regarding huji discrimination from the perspective of occupational segregation. According to the study, a U-shaped characteristic of huji discrimination among different age groups has been detected, with rural migrants born between 1970 and 1989 suffering the least degree of huji discrimination, and those born before 1970 and after 1990 suffering the worst. An analysis of huji discrimination has revealed that the U-shaped characteristic has mainly stemmed from U-shaped shifts of unequal pay for equal work, with rural migrants born between 1970 and 1989 suffering the least degree, and those born before 1970 and after 1990 suffering the worst. And occupation entry discrimination decreases significantly as the workforce gets younger, which means the younger the rural migrants are, the less occupation entry discrimination they face.　　The further mechanism analysis shows that the U-shaped characteristic of unequal pay for equal work within occupations is from the wage preference of urban migrants, with urban migrants born between 1970 and 1989 receiving less wage preference, and those born before 1970 and after 1990 receiving more. Although the phenomenon of wage penalty imposed on rural migrants still exists, its impact is relatively small from the view of numerical value and there is no manife...