The Foreign Labor Increase Impact on the Wages of Local Residents: From the Perspective of City Scale

we used CGSS2008 data and found that the influence was not significant for the local residents on migrant labors flowing, while the migrant workers increased by 1%, the annual wage income of residents in provincial city increase 1.46%, but fell 0.83% in small and medium-sized city. Therefore, the relationship between migrants and local residents is complementary effect and substitution effect coexist at the same time in mega–cities, the complementary effect is stronger than substitution effect in big city (like Provincial capital) and the substitution effect is stronger than the complementary effect in small and medium-sized city

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