Floating Population On The Contribution To Economic Growth - Guangdong Province-based Empirical Research

Since the eighties of the 20th century, with China's reform and opening-up and socio-economic development, population's large scale flow has already become the whole social dynamic important contents of people. Especially since 1990s, the increase year in and year out of quantity of floating population , " farmers' frenzied hunt for work in cities " annual tide get up tide , become will it be the end the 20th century China one of the most noticeable phenomena of the social economic life.Guangdong, as the forward position of reform and opening-up of our country, is one of the areas where the national economy is developed, it is one of the main inflow ground of the national floating population too. While Guangdong Province creates a large number of employment opportunities for floating population of the whole country, floating population and increases enormous contribution for the economy of Guangdong at the same time too. Guangdong is a typical dual economy province too, in the course of economic development, a large amount of agricultural transfer of surplus labor will come out, Guangdong Province agricultural transfer of surplus labor is it work structure effect to pass mainly to Guangdong contribution of economic growth (mainly effect that is industrial structure and ownership composition) embody.While Guangdong Province offers a large number of employment opportunities to workforces of other provinces in more than 20 years of reform and opening-up, the employees of other provinces make important contributions to economic growth ofGuangdong Province too.Through effective labour model, the paper' s researchindicates : Other provinces employees make most nearly 10% contribution rate to Guangdong Province economic growth. So, Guangdong Province Government should see that Guangdong Province is through attracting the workforces of other provinces to make important contributions to solving surplus labor's employment of our country positively , offered the enormous motive force source and huge wealth for economic development of Guangdong Province too at the same time .Because floating population mostly hit the workforce with higher technical ability , knowledge level , overall qualities flowing out, save the workforce's inflow promote manpower capital competence of Guangdong, have also economized the capital cost of investment of manpower . In addition, the inflow of the workforces of other provinces not only makes Guangdong Province keep the comparative workforce's advantage , have also promoted the accumulation of the capital.The economic growth of more than 20 years of Guangdong Province has offered alarge number of employment opportunities for originally saving the rural laborer too, have created conditions for transformation of the surplus rural labor force. The papers research indicates :With the high-speed development of the economy of Guangdong, a large amount of surplus rural labor forces flow into two , three industries from primary industry, make the work structure of Guangdong Province improve constantly, and produce a greater work structure effect, the contribution to the economic growth of Guangdong is more obvious, reach 1.92 percentage points equally, contribute share and reach 2.95 percentage points , is up to 13.08% to the contribution rate of the economic growth of Guangdong equally in maximum , most greatly up to 22.55%. This prove workforce disposition effect play a remarkable role in contributing in the whole ratio of factor productivity.