Study on intergenerational differences between the new generation of migrant workers and the first generation of migrant workers

The paper studies the intergenerational differences on education degree, marital status, work type, migrant flow distribution and remittance between the new generation migrant workers and the first generation migrant workers, based on the survey in Liaoning province.Study shows that the education degree of the new generation migrant workers is significantly higher than the first generation of migrant workers; the unmarried proportion is much higher than the first generation of migrant workers; the first generation of migrant workers are more like to choose the outside the county and in the province of flow type; most of the new generation migrant workers choose to become skilled workers; compared to the first generation of the rural labor, the amount of the remittance of the new generation migrant workers is less and most of their salaries are used by their own consumption in the city. Keywords-rural labor