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Human Capital and Migrants’Assimilation in China
Yang Juhua, Zhang Jiaojiao
Population Research    2016, 40 (4): 3-20.  
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Migrants’assimilation has been one of the most important and longstanding sociological research topics,and human capital accumulation has been found to exert decisive effects on assimilation.This paper examines the relationship between multiple indicators of human capital and multiple indicators of assimilation among migrants in 2010.We found that generally,education,job training,occupational skill,and work experience are positively correlated with assimilation, i.e.,income,community participation,cultural assimilation,and desire of long-term residence at the place of destination. However,the relationship between human capital and assimilation is not uniform,but varies with different measures of assimilation.Education does not bear a significant linkage to cultural assimilation; also surprisingly,job training is related to income,but yields strong impact on other dimensions of assimilation.Among all indicators of human capital,work experience,gauged by work years in current position,has the most consistant association with the four aspects of assimilation.Such findings suggest that human capital affect different aspects of assimilation differently,depending on measure of assimilation and human capital perse.

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