Consumer behavior of migrant workers in China

农民工家庭特有的迁移模式使其消費同时面临跨时选择与跨地选择，形成了一种独特的资源配置方式，本文利用2011年国家卫计委的流动态监测数据，从家庭生命周期的视角考察农民工家庭迁移模式，对不同迁移模式的家庭在消費，储畜和汇款选择行为特征迸行了分析，并对影响农民工家庭资源配置的动机和因素迸行了探讨。

Because the most migrant worker's family members distribute the urban and rural, they have to face with intertemporal and regional consumption choice. How to make the decision that makes up their strategics of allocating families' resources. This paper examines the influence of family separation patterns on the expenditure, saving and remittance across the migrant worker's family life cycle. The data are used the rural migrant workers monitoring survey in 2011 that was conducted by China's national population and family planning commission. Some findings are inferred from this research.

农民工

跨时消費选择

跨地消費选择

家庭迁移模式

家庭生命周期

migrant worker

intertemporal consumption

cross-regional consumption

remittance

family life cycle