关键词: 户籍身份转换, 农业转移人口, 倾向分值匹配法, 收入效应

Abstract: Drawing upon data from Chinese General Social Surveys (CGSS2012,2013),this paper investigates income effects of Hukou transition of rural migrants in the urban labour market using least square method (OLS) and Propensity Score Matching (PSM). Empirical results suggest that the conversion of household registration status does raise the income of the rural migrants in the urban labor market; however,the income advantage resulting from Hukou conversion is not evenly distributed across the people who have experienced the household registration status transition. Migrants who achieved the Hukou transition through a competition mechanism perform better than all other groups including the urban local residents. And this is further confirmed in the results of PSM. The paper concludes with discussion on the policy implications.

Keywords: Hukou Transition, Rural-Urban Migration, PSM, Income Effect