TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bodvarsson, Örn B.
AU  - Hou, Jack W.
AU  - Shen, Kailing
        TI  - Aging and Migration in a Transition Economy: The Case of China
        PY  - 2014/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8351
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8351
        AB  - Post-reform China has been experiencing two major demographic changes, an extraordinary amount of internal migration and an aging population. We present a general migration model which captures the idea that older migrants have shorter durations in the destination but possibly larger general human capital to transfer. Therefore, the incentive to migrate is ambiguously related to age. We test the theoretical implication using an extended modified gravity model, nuanced to fit the case of a transition economy. We find that shifts in China's age distribution have generated significant changes in the country's migration patterns.
        KW  - internal migration
KW  - age distribution
KW  - reforms
        ER  -