发布时间：

2026-06-30

DOI码：

10.11821/dlyj020220344

所属单位：

城市与环境科学学院

论文名称：

Research on trend and mechanism of highly educated population migrating down to urban hierarchy: Taking the candidates from Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen for the primary and middle school teachers in Wuhan as an example

发表刊物：

地理研究

关键字：

formal employment; highly educated population; inter;urban migration; migration down the urban hierarchy; theory of stickiness

摘要：

This study focuses on the trend and mechanism of highly educated population migrating down to urban hierarchy. Based on the recruitment data of Wuhan's primary and middle school teachers, we analyse the downward migration trend of candidates from first-tier cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen) to the second-tier city (Wuhan), and explain its mechanism by drawing on the theory of stickiness. The results of binary logistic regression indicate that moving down the urban hierarchy has become one of the significant migration trends of the highly educated population driven by formal employment. In our case, nearly a quarter of inter-provincial migration samples show a willingness to move down the urban hierarchy, characterized by a higher proportion of non-fresh graduates than fresh graduates. For first-tier cities, Beijing has the highest proportion of highly educated population migrating down the urban hierarchy, followed by Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. Meanwhile, Beijing has the highest proportion of fresh graduates while Shenzhen has the highest proportion of non-fresh graduates in this downward migration. This downward trend is deeply influenced by the stickiness of place, the individual factors and the urban factors. The highly educated population is back to Wuhan (the capital city of Hubei) from first-tier cities. Additional factors including age, education background, and the city level of hukou place also have certain effects on the downward tendency. In particular, young people or graduates from "Double-First Class" universities are more likely to move down the urban hierarchy. Furthermore, unlike the return migration in the West, which is influenced by religion, race, family, and personal values, both the stickiness of the place of hukou based on regional affiliation and the stickiness of the place of study based on educational affiliation profoundly affect the choice of job-choosing migration of highly educated population in China, leading to the migration down the urban hierarchy. This study demonstrates the dynamic mechanism of the trend of highly educated talents moving down the urban hierarchy in depth, which provides both a theoretical and an empirical basis for policy-making for highly educated population migration. © 2023, Science Press. All rights reserved.

合写作者：

Qiu, Jiayi,Yu, Jiayi,Li, Yuxiao

第一作者：

高喆

论文类型：

期刊论文

通讯作者：

敖荣军

论文编号：

1722800647658672128

学科门类：

教育学

文献类型：

00001

卷号：

42

期号：

01

页面范围：

123-136

ISSN号：

1000-0585

是否译文：

否

发表时间：

2023-01-01