Technological Progress, Human Capital And Chinese Labor Flow

The rural-urban migration in China has its features.There exist great differences in theenvironment of human capital investment and technology progress between the urban and ruralarea in China.Based on the background and the theory of investment in human capital,thethesis analyzes the human capital investment choice of rural labors and the features oftechnology progress to explain the reason and features of rural labor migration in China.Migration is a type of human capital investment.Under the background of great differencebetween the rural and urban environment of human capital investment,rural labor choosemigration but not education.Different kinds of technology require different human capital level(skill).China is experiencing industrialization and informationization,while technologyprogress in rural and urban area is different.The situation will worsen the labor marketsegmentation and prevent rural labor from entering the urban high-tech department.Asuggestion is to give migrants more chance to improve their human capital in urban area andget promotion.The thesis is composed of five parts,in which the principal parts are Partâ…¡â…¢andâ…£.Partâ… is composed of chapter one and two.Chapter one is an evaluative survey of the relativeliteratures.Chapter two concludes the macro features and questions of rural-urban migration inChina,and analyzes the human capital features of rural labors and the factors influencing themigration.Partâ…¡is composed of chapter three and four.We analyze the human capital investment choiceof rural labors to explain the reason and features of rural labor migration in China.In chapterthree,I analyze the expected income and cost of youth migrants based on the theory ofinvestment in human capital and the rural environment of human capital investment.In chapterfour,I analyze the necessity of studying the return to migraion first,and in a positive study,Iget the return to migraion and return to education of rural labor.Under the assumption ofrational choice,I analyze their effects on the human capital investment choice of rural labor.The conclusion is that under the background of great difference between the rural and urbanenvironment of human capital investment,migration has the feature of low cost and high returnand migrants can get high return of migration.So,migration is young people's rational choiceof investment in human capital in the current situation.The poor environment of human capitalinvestment is the impetus of rural labor migration.This is an important conclusion aboutChinese labor migration.We point out that it is necessary to take measures to improve the ruralenvironment of human capital investment,especially the chance of high education. Partâ…¢includes chapter five.We analyze the features of Chinese technology progress toexplain the labor market segmentation.First,we review the histroy of advanced country andget some conclusions about the relationship between technology progress and labor demand.Then,we find China is experiencing industrialization and informationization,while technologyprogress in rural and urban area is different.On one hand,the situation will worsen the labormarket segmentation and prevent rural labor from entering the urban high-tech department.Onthe other hand,the situation will impluse urban labor to high-tech department while leavingmore stations for rural labor.We point out a labor migration mechanism:If rural migrants canget a chance to improve their human capital in urban area and get promotion,then more rurallabor will migrate.Partâ…£includes chapter six.We establish a model to analyze the choice of rural labor,including great differences in the environment of human capital investment and technologyprogress between the urban and rural area as the constrain condition.In a model,I prove theconclusion:Improving the environment of human capital investment for migrants in urban areacan accelerate the migration and reduce the urban-rural income gap.Although improving theenvironment of human capital investment for migrants in urban area will increaseunemployment rate in a short term,it can decrease unemployment rate in a long term.Theconclusion supports the labor migration mechanism we point out in chapter five.We point outthat it is necessary to take measures to improve the urban environment of human capitalinvestment for migrants.Partâ…¤is chapter seven,concluding remarks.Based on the above analysis,the concludingchapter summarizes the explanation about the reason and features of rural labor migration inChina.The thesis gives some suggestions:taking measures to improve the rural environment ofhuman capital investment and the urban environment of human capital investment for migrants.