Research On The "Shortage Of Off-farm Workers" Based On Population Floating Model

Coastal areas in China since 2004 firstly appeared a phenomenon called"shortage of off-farm workers".In recent years, this phenomenon began to spread inland areas of China, as a Serious problem in the labor market."Shortage of off-farm workers"intensified in spring 2010,especially some factories who experienced the impact of financial crisis were going to resume production. Labor shortages also became a prominent issue.According to the statistics in 2010, the eastern coastal areas of large-scale labor shortage, only the gap in the Pearl River Delta region reach to more than 200 millions, of which have the existence of the business employment gap."Shortage of off-farm workers"is primarily in labor-intensive enterprises.Among the main targets of these enterprises is the employment of migrant rural surplus labor. However, labor companies can not find enough workers who have both time and labor ability.The results not only impacts the production and the reputation but also impacts China's economic development.In this paper, which makes the population floating model as a tool and"Shortage of off-farm workers"as the main line to research the cause of the problem of"shortage of off-farm workers"and solutions to the problem.Firstly the article introduced the background and the characteristics of the labor shortage. Secondly, this article analyzes the reasons for"Shortage of off-farm workers"through the Lewis model, Fei-Ranis model and the Todaro model. The main cause of"shortage of off-farm workers"are the adjustment of industrial structure,expected income gap between the urban unemployment rate increased and the lower profits to work in the city.And then added two factors into Todaro model--honor and happiness.Finally,the article demonstrated to resolve"shortage of off-farm workers"problem strategy: to accelerate industrial upgrading and improve industrial gradient transfer,to establish a flexible mechanism for frural surplus labors,strengthen rural basic education and skills training for migrant workers,to improve the overall quality of farmers and to develop the rural economy.