Study on intergenerational differences between the new generation of migrant workers and the first generation of migrant workers

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10.2991/icemct-14.2014.114How to use a DOI?

Keywords

rural labor tranfer, intergenerational difference, the new generation migrant workers, the first generation migrant workers

Abstract

The paper studies the intergenerational differences on education degree, marital status, work type, migrant flow distribution and remittance between the new generation migrant workers and the first generation migrant workers, based on the survey in Liaoning province. Study shows that the education degree of the new generation migrant workers is significantly higher than the first generation of migrant workers; the unmarried proportion is much higher than the first generation of migrant workers; the first generation of migrant workers are more like to choose the outside the county and in the province of flow type; most of the new generation migrant workers choose to become skilled workers; compared to the first generation of the rural labor, the amount of the remittance of the new generation migrant workers is less and most of their salaries are used by their own consumption in the city.

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Suqiong Chen
PY  - 2014/06
DA  - 2014/06
TI  - Study on intergenerational differences between the new generation of migrant workers and the first generation of migrant workers
BT  - Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Education, Management and Computing Technology
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 468
EP  - 472
SN  - 1951-6851
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DO  - 10.2991/icemct-14.2014.114
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