On the Basic Characteristics of the New Age Migrant Workers in Beijing: Take Dongying City, Shandong Province as Reference

Abstract

Take the migrant workers in Dongying as reference, we find that the average age of new generation migrant worker in Beijing is 5 years younger than the old-age one; the education level is higher than the old-one; in choosing their jobs, the young age migrant workers in Beijing prefer to choose honorable jobs; also, the younger migrant workers are more adaptable to the Beijing city; and the absolute exploitation on younger migrant workers is weakening, while the relative exploitation on them is growing.