Labor Mobility,industrial Transfer And Regional Income Gap

Since the reform and opening up,the Chinese economy has achieved sustained and rapid economic growth,but the income gap between regions has been widening and widening.This has become a matter of close concern to all levels of government and scholars.At present,China’s economic growth has entered a "new normal" phase.Economic development pays more attention to quality improvement and structural transformation and upgrading.Supply-side reform will also pay more attention to the orderly and free flow of elements.This inevitably will lead to a new round of labor force quantity and structure in the inter-region adjustment,and will also cause the industry to reconsider the choice of location.Whether labor mobility and interregional transfer of industries are conducive to narrowing regional income disparity is the urgent problem to be solved in this paper.Through combing the theoretical basis and existing literature,this paper finds that there exists an interaction mechanism between labor mobility,industrial transfer and regional income disparity,that is,labor mobility is affected by local market effect and market crowding effect of regional income disparity and regional income disparity influence the labor mobility through the cost of living effect and the comparison of the returns and costs;the industrial transfer affects the regional income disparity through factor injection effect,technology spillover effect and industrial emptiness;the industrial transfer influence the labor mobility through the remuneration income,the labor migration affects the industrial transfer through the factor cost and location selection.At the same time,by referring to the literature,this paper summarizes the measurement methods of labor mobility,industrial transfer and regional income disparity,and makes a preliminary analysis of the three trends by measuring.The results show that: first,from 2001 to 2015,the flow of labor force in our country mainly flows from underdeveloped inland areas in the central and western regions to developed eastern coastal areas.After 2010,the speed and scale of the labor force flow slowed down,and the workforce returned.Second,Beijing-Tianjin region,the eastern coastal region and the southern coastal region are the major transfer areas ofChina’s industrial transfer.The central region is the major receiving area for manufacturing relocation while the western region has a gap with the central region in undertaking industrial transfer.Thirdly,the current absolute income gap between the eight major regions is expanding,and the relative income gap between the eight major regions is mainly caused by the changes in the income gap between regions.Secondly,this paper constructs the panel simultaneous equations model,and with the related data,conducts an empirical research on the intrinsic relationship among the labor mobility,industrial transfer and regional income disparity.The findings are as follows: First,the effect of the current scale of industrial transfer on the narrowing of regional income disparity has not yet appeared.The cross-regional labor mobility will significantly reduce the regional income disparity.Second,both the regional income disparity and the scale of industrial transfer have a positive impact on labor mobility,namely,the widening regional income disparity and the increasing scale of industrial transfer will speed up labor migration across regions.Third,labor mobility is conducive to accelerating the pace of industrial transfer.Finally,based on the above theoretical analysis and empirical research,this paper summarizes and gives relevant policy recommendations in order to explore ways and measures to improve the efficiency of regional resource integration and ease the regional income disparity from the perspective of labor mobility and industrial transfer.