The Empirical Study Of The Impact Of Regional Income Gap On Labor Migration Across The Region In China

Since the mid 80's in 20 centuries, the labor force migration problem become social phenomena and a popular topic the public concern and discuss in theories field of our country. In recent years, because of the large difference of the economy development among regions, the gap of residents'income of every region expands gradually. The unbalance of the economic development makes population motivate between each region, under the order about of economic benefits, people motivate from low-income place to high-income place. Based on Todaro's theory about population motivation, the author exerts qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis to research how the income gap of districts affects labor force motivation. The substantial evidence analyzed the relationship between the number of labor force who flowed into Yangtze River Delta and Zhu Jiang River Delta namely Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong four province(municipality directly under the Central Government)and the gap of income between these four province and the part of middle and west of China from 1998 to 2005. The outcome confirms that the gap of expected income among areas has a certain effect on the number of motivating labor.Besides the introduction the main content of this text has four chapters:Chapter one, summarize the definition of labor migration and the Todaro's model and the state of the model applies to our country. First, define the labor migration and population transfer. Then introduce the Todaro's model. Finally, examine and amend the model whether it apply to our country suitable.Chapter two, analyze the state of the income difference of our country district and labor force transfer. First, analyze the situation of income gap in our country in terms of the gap between city and countryside, between the eastern part and central and western regions, between the coast and inland. Then introduce the current situation of labor force migration include the flow direction and number of labor transfer, and employment situation of floating population in the city.Chapter three, based on the Todaro's model, test the relation of income gap and the number of floating population using the data of our country during 1998 to 2005. First, the author figures out the recessive unemployment rate of Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong four provinces by a kind of production function. And then exploit recessive unemployment rate and dominant unemployment rate (register unemployment rate) together to get a true unemployment rate. According to the basic state of our country, the author brings forth an amendment to Todaro's model, and calculates the employment probability rate. Combine income level and employment rate together to compute the difference value between workers'expected income level of four provinces and the average income level of medium and west region of our country. The substantial evidence analyzes the relation of income gap and the number of floating labor force.Chapter four, summarize the full text and make relevant policy recommendations. Major conclusions include:(1)The income gap between the expected number of floating workforce has a positive effect; (2)The expected income gap expands gradually;(3)Although the hidden unemployment rate gradually decreased, but still remains high.