Spatial pattern and its driving forces of China's interprovincial skilled and less-skilled migration
China's high-quality and inclusive growth of regional economy need to cooperatively attract skilled and less-skilled labors.Based on microdata of China's 2015 one-thousandth population sample survey,this pa-per analyzes the spatial pattern of interprovincial skilled and less-skilled migration from 2010 to 2015,and uses zero inflation negative binomial regression models to reveal the driving forces of interprovincial skilled and less-skilled migration.The main findings are as follows:1)The interprovincial mobility of less-skilled labors is stronger than that of skilled labors,and the spatial distribution of the interprovincial skilled migration is more dispersed than that of interprovincial less-skilled migration.2)The eastern developed provinces and municipal-ities have high net inflow intensity of skilled and less-skilled labors,and the central regions have high net out-flow intensity of skilled and less-skilled labors.The net migration intensity of less-skilled labors is higher than that of skilled labors,and there is high intensity of net out-migration of skilled labors in northeastern region and Gansu province.3)Skilled labors mainly move from the central,southwestern and northeastern regions to Guangdong,Beijing and Shanghai,while the less-skilled labors mainly migrate from the central and southwest-ern regions to Guangdong,Zhejiang,Shanghai and Jiangsu.4)China's interprovincial skilled and less-skilled migration are mainly driven by economic factors,and the employment complementarity between knowledge-and technology-intensive industries and consumer services leads to similar choices of destination for skilled and less-skilled labor.However,the impact of economic factors such as income,and housing price on the scale of interprovincial less-skilled migration is stronger than that of interprovincial skilled migration.The quality of children's primary education is the most important amenities that both highly skilled and less-skilled labor value,while the amenities of educational and cultural services facilities,and the climatic amenities play bigger positive roles in the interprovincial skilled migration than that of interprovincial less-skilled migration.