1st Edition

Student Mobility Since the Expansion of Higher Education in China

By Liping Ma Copyright 2024
242 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

242 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Using a nationally representative data set, this book examines the characteristics of Chinese college students’ mobility since the expansion of higher education. It analyses college graduates’ mobility in both horizontal and vertical dimensions. The horizontal dimension shows college students’ migration directions and location changes, including migration for college, migration for... Read more
1. Education Migration  2. Employment Migration  3. From Education Migration to Employment Migratio 4. Return Migration for Employment Chapter 5. Grassroots Employment Migration Chapter 6. Leaving or "Drifting" Chapter 7. The Income Premium of Migration Chapter 8. Migration and Job Match Chapter 9. Intergenerational Occupational Mobility Chapter 10. Regional Intergenerational Mobility

Biography

Liping Ma is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Economics of Education, Graduate School of Education at Peking University, China. She earned her Ph.D. in Economics of Education from Peking University and then continued her research as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. She was also a visiting scholar at Columbia University, University of Maryland (College Park) and University of California (Irvine). Her research interests include education and the labour market and the quantitative evaluation of education policies. As the Principal Investigator, she has undertaken projects for the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Social Science Foundation of China. She is currently the Deputy Director of the Institute of Economics of Education (the key research base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education of China) and the Deputy Director of the Center for Institutional Research of Peking University.