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第639期岭南学术论坛

报告题目

Frictional Sorting

报告人

梁文泉

暨南大学 副教授

主持人

杭静

中山大学岭南学院 副教授

摘 要

In many countries around the world, constraints on mobility and housing supply interact with each other and combine to restrict workers’ location decisions. Using an equilibrium sorting model and rich micro data from China, we evaluate the impacts of these dual constraints on workers’ sorting behavior and quantify the resulting changes in their welfare and inequality. We find strong policy interactions between the two kinds of frictions in determining welfare losses and regional inequality. Counterfactual simulations show that lowering migration costs can increase welfare and reduce regional inequality by moving workers from unproductive inland regions to productive coastal regions in China; such welfare and spatial distributional impacts depend on the elasticity of housing supply in coastal regions. Similarly, the impacts of relaxing housing supply restrictions depend upon the constraints imposed on internal migration. Results highlight the policy complementarities between reducing the two kinds of frictions and have general policy implications.

报告人介绍

梁文泉

暨南大学经济学院副教授。研究领域为城市劳动经济学，主要关注移民、户籍和城市发展。目前已经在Journal of Environmental Economics and Management、China Economic Review、Journal of Housing Economics等国际期刊以及《中国社会科学》《经济研究》《管理世界》《经济学(季刊)》等国内期刊发表论文多篇，研究成果曾获《经济学(季刊)》年度最佳论文、第十四届上海青年经济学者优秀成果一等奖。

主持人介绍

杭 静

中山大学岭南学院副教授，于UCLA获得经济学博士，主要从事经济增长和发展经济学研究。

时 间

2023年3月24日（周五）

下午14:30

地 点

岭南堂汪道涵会议室（101）

语 言

英文+中文