出生地、教育获得地与香港居民的职业收入

Abstract:Existing research routinely treats mainland immigrants in Hong Kong as a homogeneous group，and attributes their earnings disadvantage compared to Hong Kong local-borns to immigrants’ difficulties in adaptation to the Hong Kong labor market. Such a dichotomous distinction fails to disentangle the effects of place of education from that of place of birth. Employing data from the first wave of Hong Kong Panel Study of Social Dynamics conducted in 2011，I differentiate between three groups of Hong Kong residents，that is，Hong Kong local-borns，mainland immigrants educated in Hong Kong，and mainland immigrants educated in mainland China. I find that net of other factors，mainland immigrants educated in Hong Kong earn as much as Hong Kong local-borns，while mainland immigrants educated in mainland China earn significantly less than mainland immigrants educated in Hong Kong，which can be explained by their lower educational attainment. Moreover，earnings returns to mainland upper secondary education are smaller than that of Hong Kong.

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