From: Where is the grass greener? A micro-founded model of migration with application to Guangdong
Description of key variables | |
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Wu |
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where, average wage index in top three units i,t = | |
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and, | |
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i = 1…18,t = 0…9 | |
wr |
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where, average gross rural income i,t = | |
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and, average gross rural income index i,t = | |
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and, | |
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i = 1…18,t = 0…9 | |
UH rate | urban hukou rate |
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i = 1…18,t = 0…9 | |
Lmar-rate | Late marriage rate i,t is the ratio of the number of |
females who were at least 23 years old at | |
marriage to the total number of first marriages. | |
K/P | (K/P) |
capital stock i,t =K i,t =(1−δ)K i,t−1+F D I i,t , | |
where δ is depreciation rate. | |
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i = 1…18,t = 0…9 | |
SFP | number of single female i,t = |
number of female i,t −number of married and child | |
bearing age i,t . | |
where, child bearing age is between 20–49 years old | |
i = 1…18,t = 0…9 |