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Employment Status Of The Migrant Workers Inter-generational Differences In Empirical Studies

Posted on:2011-03-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S D LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2199360302493605Subject:Labor economics
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Since the reform and opening up, going out of villages to urban employment, a large number of peasants formed with Chinese characteristics "peasant-workers" group. In the wave of migrant workers into the city, government encourages the migrant workers obtaining employment through various channels and expanding employment space. Central governments attach weight to migrant workers increasingly, because they played a significant role in realizing urbanization and modernization. As time goes by, migrant workers groups separate into two groups, the first generation of migrant workers and the second generation of migrant workers. For these two generations of migrant workers form a significantly different personality differences for their different background and living environment, which led to their different cultures, opinions, values, actions, and different employment status. In this article, the second generation of migrant workers mainly refers to the kind of labors who were born after 1980s, engage non-agricultural production in cities, but own the rural residents. And the first generation of migrant workers refers to the kind of migrant workers who were born before 1980s, engage non-agricultural production in cities, but own the rural residents. In this paper, literature analysis, questionnaires, statistical analysis and other methods, are used to describe the employment status of two generations of the status of migrant workers, and test a variety significant difference between old and new generation of migrant workers employment status, and identify the impact of factors. We obtaincd that there are significant differences in the labor contract, rights protection, and social insurance, between two generations of migrant workers. There is no significant difference in the working hours and the monthly wage, and gave the corresponding policy recommendations.
Keywords/Search Tags:Migrant workers, The second generation migrant workers, The first generation migrant workers, The intergenerational difference
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