Abstract: Using data from a survey of rural-urban migrants in China conducted by Renmin University of China in 2009,this paper conducts an empirical study on the finical support from out-migrants to their old parents in rural China.Social economic status of migrants as well as characteristics of migration process are introduced into analysis.Results show that migration patterns and socio-economic characteristics of migrants have significant impacts on their behaviors of aging support.Out-migration has conflicting effects on improving the economic status of out-migrants and taking their traditional obligation of family support.Importantly the traditional intergenerational support patterns of reciprocity and exchange are maintained in families of migrants′ parents.The corporate group model is still the regulation for division of aging support among adult children whose migration behaviors become important characteristics in adjusting the division of family support.

Keywords: Family Support, Intergenerational Support, Financial Support

摘要： 利用中国人民大学2009年"中国流动人口问题研究调查"数据,综合其中流动人口在流入地、流出地及迁移过程的相关信息,对迁移所带来的成年子女的经济支持行为变化进行了分析。研究显示:流动人口的迁移方式以及在流入地和流出地的相关社会、经济背景均会对他们的养老行为产生深刻影响;迁移在提高流动人口经济赡养能力与维系其对父母的传统养老责任方面存在冲突—在流动人口的经济状况获得改善的同时,他们与流入地社会的融合削弱了其原有的养老意愿。研究还指出,就外出者在流出地所处的大家庭而言,他们与父母之间仍旧延续了传统的代际互惠和交换模式,成年子女之间保留了资源分配优化的群体合作分工方式,外出成为调节子女之间养老分工的重要特征。

关键词: 家庭养老, 代际支持, 经济支持