An Economic Analysis Of Peasant-Worker Regional Discrimination

Since Cary S. Becker, the owner of Nobel Price, published the monograph"discrimination Economics" in 1957, it created a new way of studying discriminationfrom the economic perspective, and then the issue of discrimination in the labormarket increasingly attracted widespread attention from the international economiccircles. However the sudden shortage of peasant-workers in China in the new centuryadded practical significance to study discrimination. The essence of the shortage ofmigrant workers broke out in China's eastern coastal region where private economydeveloped is the regional shortage of labor results from the mobility of the rural laborforce. This economic phenomenon is very strange to China which is a rich supply oflabor. Up to now, the acedamic circles have digged into the phenomena except for theview of regional discrimination.Based on the carding of domestic and foreign literatures about discrimination, thepaper originally creates the regional discrimination separated from discrimination ofurban and rural areas for specialized research, and clarifies the content andcharacteristics of the regional discrimination, furthermore, builds the economic modelto logically deduce its validity and cost. Research shows that the regionaldiscrimination has already made an important impact on the trends of the movementof rural surplus labor and the economic efficiency of enterprises, and it will eventually reduce the pure profit from both sides of discrimination, undermine the competitivecapacity of enterprises, thus peasant-workers will flow into other regions. The paper, synthetically making use of analytic methods from information economics, behavioreconomics and other related disciplines, brings forward the important causes to theregional discrimination regions are high costs of information of employments, discriminatory preference of owners, great mobility of migrant workers, theprejudiced and rooted social exclusive mentality, and further brings up severalproposals to eliminate regional discrimination such as "regulate the labor market, break the segmentation of urban labor market, improve the employment servicesystem innovate the security system of peasant-workers, and ensure the effectiveimplementation of the Laws on protecting migrant workers", "explore new forms ofmanagement of peasant-workers and create a harmonious atmosphere through widelypropagandas and education in public to make equality lie in people's hearts deeply", "improve migrant workers themselves, increase human investments inpeasant-workers, and advance migrant workers' vocational skills".