ABSTRACT

This chapter regards education migration and employment migration as a continuous migration process, presenting a series of migration behaviours of college graduates from their hometown location to their college location and then to their employment location. It summarises college graduates' education-employment migration patterns and reveals the relationship between graduates' choices of employment location and their hometown location as well as their college location.

By relating to hot social issues and relevant policies, Chapters 4, 5, and 6 focus on three special migration behaviours, i.e., return migration, grassroots employment, and “fleeing from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou”, attempting to explore the underlying mechanism and reasons for these behaviours and to discuss how to alleviate employment difficulties from the perspective of policy evaluation.