Empirical Study On The Intergenerational Differences Of Job-Seeking Behavior Among Migrant Workers

With the rapid progress of China’s industrialization and urbanlization, largenumber of rural surplus labor transfer to urban, forming migrant workers group ofChinese-Featured. The phenomenon of intergenerational turnover has arisen in thenew-generational migrant workers, who have become the main body of the migrantworkers. Their differences on individual characteristics and career motivation, field,expectation caused by the different born and growing background.This paper, analyzed the variables of individual characteristics, family characteristics,social capital and human capital by descriptive statistics, the results show that it hasobvious intergenerational differences. Using interaction, correlations and multinomiallogistic regression, analyzed the impact variables of career field, approach, motivation andexpectation of migrant workers.Research shows that the main career field of migrant workers are electronic toy,machining, textile and clothing. It was affected by sexual, risk preference, the number offamily and peer, the number of friends, the fee of telephone each month, take part intownsmen association, relatives in government, education level, mechanic and training.The approach of job-seeking among migrant workers are relatives or friends referrals,intermediaries or talent market. It closely relative with sexual, marital status, the fee oftelephone each month, mechanic.The motivation to job-seeking of most migrant workers are survival type, however,the rate has decrease dramatically from old-generation to new-generation. What’s more,the rate of development type and value type have rapid increase. It was affected bygenerations, risk preference, marital status, the number of family and peer, the fee oftelephone each month, education level, mechanic.New-generation migrant workers’ expected wage is higher than old-generationmigrant workers on low and high level, while it is lower on middle level. Sexual, thenumber of family and peer, the number of friends, the fee of telephone each month, arehave effect on it.Combination the intergenerational differences, in order to ensuring the employment ofmigrant workers, considering the differences among characteristics, job-seeking behaviorand the factors effect on it, this paper put forward three countermeasures.First and foremost, migrant workers should reconstruct and expand the social capital,increase the investment of human capital, delevop the social network base on three supportpoints: consanguinity, geopolitical relationship and occupational relations. What’s more,government and enterprise should take effective measures to keep the approach of job-seeking smoothly, take advantage of efficient approach. Besides, widen the field ofjob-seeking, accelerate the adjustment of industrial structure, develop the pulling functionof the service industry for the employment among migrant workers. Last but not the least,migrant workers should change their motivation of job-seeking, transform survival type todevelopment type and value type, planning their career, know what they want to do andwhat can they do, define themselves clearly.