破除城乡二元结构,促进城乡协调发展，重点要推进城镇化，要更多依靠劳动者人力资本的提升。本研究旨在围绕农村劳动力就业和迁徙的行为动机及其对自身和下一代人力资本的影响的科学问题，开展理论研究。在此基础上，从微观层面入手开展实证研究。基于有代表性的、同时涵盖农村未外出劳动力和外出劳动力、跨越1981-2016年的大样本面板数据，全面、系统分析我国农村劳动力就业和迁徙的动态特征，识别农村劳动力外出就业和回流选择的影响因素、机理和途径，定量评估农村劳动力外出就业对收入、自身人力资本和下一代人力资本的影响及其机理和途径，为我国制定在城镇化过程中的人力资本提升战略提供科学的决策依据。

Quality urbanization based on improved human capital plays a key role in ensuring a more balanced growth between urban and rural areas in China. The overall goal of this proposed project is to help increase our understanding of labor supply decisions among farmers over the past three decades, and the impact on their human capital. To achieve this goal, we will take advantage of our own household dataset, a nationally representative panel data set that has tracked the migration and employment history for both out migrants and locall off-farm workers over the past three decades. We will first describe the dynamics of labor supply, and then to identify determinants of labor supply decision, and to evaluate the impact of outmigration on income, human capital of migrants themselves as well as that of their children. We wish to provide empirically-based evidence to help government to better design strategies to improve the human capital of rural labor force during the process of urbanization.