Study on Migrant Workers Behaviors of Choosing the Informal Employment

Based on the Chinese urban labor market survey data,which is implemented by China Academy of Social Sciences in 2001,this paper investigates the split-flow of the migrant workers and the factors influencing the migrant workers to choose the informal employment.The results show that,compared with the formal migrant worker,the informal migrant worker are lacking of social capital and put into less funds on obtaining the job;education significantly increased the probability of migrants engaging in informal employment but the coefficient of lagged labor market state is not significant;the split-flow of the migrants' employment doesn't result in the migrant labor market stratification,the informal employment exist strong self-choice.