A Case Study About Motivation For Rural Labor's Cross-border Employment

With the advancement of economic globalization and China's accession to the WTO, China's foreign labor exporting has made rapid development. Labor exporting is not only one integral part of China's foreign labor service cooperation, but also one important way to migration of China's rural labors; it plays a more and more obvious role in easing employment pressure of China's rural labors. This article takes T village, which is a well-known "immigration village" for the case, and uses the Labor migration theories to discuss the initial motive for rural labors' immigration in every point of view under the background of China's foreign labor exporting' development, and it gives conclusions at last.This article has five parts.Part one is introduction; it mainly introduces the background, the content, the significance, the framework and the ways of research. Part two introduces the mechanism of foreign labor cooperation in China and the process of cross-border employment in Puyang city, which provides an objective basis for understanding the motivation of cross-border employment. Part three introduces some theories; include Push-pull theory, dual labor market theory, and theory of migration cultural, new theory of family migration, migration choice theory and theory of migration investment. Part four is the main part of this paper; it uses the combination of six theories above and the interviews to discuss the initial motive for rural labors' cross-border employment from every point of view. Part five summaries the full text and gives conclusions, it also gives some policy recommendations to government.