華師經管學術講座第430期（經濟）
【題目】Frictional Sorting
【時間】2023年3月30日（周四）上午10:00
【地點】文二棟536會議室
【主講人】梁文泉副教授 （暨南大學經濟學院）
【主持人】吳明琴教授 （新葡的京集團350vip8888經濟與管理學院）
【摘要】In many countries around the world, migration costs and housing supply restrictions 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 aggregate 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 regional distributional impacts depend on the elasticity of housing supply in coastal regions and vice-versa. Results highlight the policy complementarities between reducing the two kinds of frictions and have general implications for countries with different levels of constraints on mobility and housing supply.
【主講人簡介】梁文泉，現為暨南大學經濟學院副教授。研究領域為城市勞動經濟學，主要關注移民、戶籍和城市發展。目前已經在Journal of Environmental Economics and Management、China Economic Review、Journal of Housing Economics等國際期刊以及《中國社會科學》、《經濟研究》、《管理世界》、《經濟學(季刊)》等國內期刊發表論文多篇，研究成果曾獲經濟學(季刊)年度最佳論文、第十四屆上海青年經濟學者優秀成果一等獎。