Abstract
This paper focuses on labor migration from rural to urban China. In our probit model, we empirically analyze the probability of migrant status using the Chinese Household Income Project 2002 data. Our empirical results show that the probability of migration is higher for persons who are between １5 and 44 year of age, and company managers. On the contrary, the probability is lower for those with secondary-level or high school education, and for agriculture-related companies. Moreover, we conduct a probit model analysis for the sub-sample data focusing on the heads of
households and on different regions. Last, our analysis can be treated as a complimentary analysis to the existing literature.
