时间：2016年9月21日2:00-3:30

地点：国家发展研究院万众楼一楼小教室

主讲人：赵大旋 中国人民大学商学院

Title: Migrant Workers and Cities in China

Abstract: The recent urbanization in China creates a large number of migrant workers who leave their hometowns and separate from their families to earn more in the city. This paper constructs a model to show how migrant workers shape cities in China. City with a larger initial proportion of skilled workers grows faster and attracts more skilled workers over the past decade in China. But the housing price in skilled city does not have a greater increase rather than that in low skilled city concurrently. The model claims that the skilled city turns to be more productive but the total consumption there does not increase a lot, since the production and consumption of migrant workers are separated. Thus, the real wage in the skilled city declines slowly with the expansion of city. Agglomeration is enhanced.