The Impact of the Policy of High School Entrance Exams in Local Working Places on the Occupation Expectations of Migrant Children

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10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_87How to use a DOI?

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The Policy of High School Entrance Exams in Local Working Places; Migrant Children; Occupation Expectations; Intergenerational Transmission

Abstract

The issue of compulsory education for migrant children is widely concerned, which largely determines children’s choice of occupations in the future. Yet the Hukou policy and low intergenerational mobility in China impeded the right to education and choices of occupations for unregistered residents in local. In 2012, the Ministry of Education released the policy of high school entrance exams in local working places, which means more migrant children can participate in high school entrance exams in their parents’ working places, providing more opportunities for educational attainment and choices of occupations for migrant children. The paper uses the logistic model to understand whether the policy itself or the parental expectation influences children’s self-expectation of occupation based on 2013-2014 China Education Panel Survey. It finds that the policy will give future occupation expectations to migrant children, and those migrant children from families with non-elite and elite occupation expectations are more likely to choose elite occupations after the policy intervention. Parents who expect their children to pursue elite occupations will make children have more expectations of elite occupations. In addition, the paper finds that the policy does not significantly slow down the intergenerational transmission of occupation expectations among migrant children’s families. The findings of this paper provide policymakers with some thoughts and references to consider the issues of educational equity, social stratification, and mobility.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiaqi Li
AU  - Yucheng Zhang
AU  - Laiyi Zhong
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/12/30
TI  - The Impact of the Policy of High School Entrance Exams in Local Working Places on the Occupation Expectations of Migrant Children
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 5th International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 733
EP  - 747
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_87
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-494069-89-3_87
ID  - Li2022
ER  -