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A Solution to the Migrant Labor Shortage and Rural Labor Surplus in China

In: Rural Labor Migration, Discrimination, and the New Dual Labor Market in China

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  • Guifu Chen

    (Xiamen University)

  • Shigeyuki Hamori

    (Kobe University)

Abstract

Since 2003, China’s labor market has faced two simultaneous crises: a rural labor surplus and a severe shortage of migrant labor. Using data from the 2000 China Health and Nutrition Survey questionnaire, which covers 288 villages in 36 counties, this chapter seeks a solution to this dual dilemma. Specifically, multinomial logit, Mincer-type, and probit models are applied to examine the effect of educational levels on the employment choices of rural laborers and on the wages and the employment status of migrants. Based on the results of our analysis, we propose a policy to increase the educational levels of rural dwellers, along with initiatives to eliminate all artificial barriers so as to facilitate the migration of rural laborers.

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  • Guifu Chen & Shigeyuki Hamori, 2014. "A Solution to the Migrant Labor Shortage and Rural Labor Surplus in China," SpringerBriefs in Economics, in: Rural Labor Migration, Discrimination, and the New Dual Labor Market in China, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 23-38, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:spbchp:978-3-642-41109-0_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-41109-0_3
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    Cited by:

    1. Christoph Scherrer, 2018. "The Disrupted Passage from an Agrarian Rural to an Industrial Urban Workforce in Most Countries in the Global South," Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, vol. 7(3), pages 301-319, December.
    2. Christoph Scherrer, 2018. "Labour surplus is here to stay: why ‘decent work for all’ will remain elusive," Journal of Social and Economic Development, Springer;Institute for Social and Economic Change, vol. 20(2), pages 293-307, October.

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