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HARP-671 |
Title: |
The new rural-urban labor mobility in China: Causes and implications |
Source: |
Journal of Socio-Economics 29 (2000) 39-56 |
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Year: |
2000 |
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0 |
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Keywords: |
China/Chinese, development, employment, human rights, movement and residency, non-discrimination, reform, social security, civil and political rights, labor market, migrants/migration, self-determination, standard of living, family, floating population (liudong renkou) |
Abstract: |
As the Chinese economy reforms, a huge new floating population of rural-urban migrants is transforming the urban labor force. This article explores some of the most important reasons for the emergence of the floating population in china. It argues that the neoclassical model alone is not adequate to explain the massive rural-urban internal migration underway in China. Instead, ideas drawn from both sociological theories of segmented markets and institutional economics are used to supplement the standard neoclassical explanation. Chinese policy reforms in both rural and urban areas decreased the balkanization of labor markets and opened up employment opportunities for many rural-urban migrants. In rural areas, a set of agricultural market reforms increased farm incomes and simultaneously produced a large surplus labor supply. In urban areas, reforms beginning in the 1980s created an effective demand for rural migrants. Of particular importance was the development of a contract labor system and the emergence of a private sector. |
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Keywords: China/Chinese, civil and political rights, development, employment, family, floating population (liudong renkou), human rights, labor market, migrants/migration, movement and residency, non-discrimination, reform, self-determination, social security, standard of living