Floating population: migration with(out) family and Chinese economic development

Clément Imbert, Joan Monras, Marlon Seror and Yanos Zylberberg

No 18418, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: Migrants around the world leave their spouse or children behind, yet family separation remains absent from standard equilibrium models of migration. We develop and estimate with Chinese data a quantitative spatial model in which rural households choose whether to migrate, which members migrate, and where to migrate. We show that migrant family arrangements respond to economic opportunities for fathers and mothers and adjust to living costs and migration restrictions at destination in a way that magnifies the aggregate productivity gains from rural-urban migration. We also quantify the effects of gender inequality, of housing, and of migration policies on family migration, productivity, and welfare.

Keywords: family migration; Migration policy; Housing policy; Spatial equilibrium (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J61 O15 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-09
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