Information Acquisition, Occupational Mobility And Urbanization Of New Generation Migrant Workers

With industrialization and urbanization quickening in China, new generation of migrant workers have already became the important part of city industrial workers, and they also will become the most important part of new citizens in city. However, they encounter many difficulties in the process of obtaining employment, settling down and urbanization. New generation of migrant workers lack occupational stability and they change their occupations in city frequently. If mass of new generation of migrant workers are only in horizontal mobility, their urbanization will be hard to realize. Occupation information is a basic resource to obtain jobs in the labor market. Information acquisition directly influences the employment of new generation of migrant workers.This research apply GIS technology, using SUR and SEM method to construct a model of information capacity, clarify the forming mechanism of information acquisition, reveal the influence mechanism of information acquisition capacity and occupational mobility on urbanization of new generation of migrant workers. This program will supply a gap to current research on occupational mobility and employment information acquisition. The expected research findings will enrich the theories of urbanization of migrant workers and occupational mobility of new generation of migrant workers and give policy consultations to government administrators on improving information acquisition capacity, inducting rational occupational mobility, improving occupational quality for promoting the urbanization of new generation of migrant workers.Therefore, this article mainly includes the following aspects:Firstly, based on analysis of information acquisition theory, having analyzed the forming mechanism of information acquisition built occupation information acquisition model and revealed the factors that impact information acquisition of the new generation of migrant workers from the macro and micro levels. The results show that:Compared to entertainment and news information, the attention in relation to their own development (such as training, occupation, etc.) and the information of protection of the rights and interests is not high for the new generation of migrant workers; In the aspects of occupation information acquisition, it is still the main method to use "informal channels" for the new generation of migrant workers obtaining employment information and their career acquisition channel is narrow; There has been greatly improved when most of the new generation of migrant workers compare to the old ones in accessing to information; Compared to other types of information, the new generation of migrant workers obtained lower information appraisal. In the micro factors that affect information acquisition of the new Generation of migrant workers, gender, origin, age, educational level, marital status, level of technology and income have an impact on their information acquisition, which along with improving the level of education and skill levels and the growth of time workers in the city, the new generation of migrant workers will enhance information acquisition ability; Split between urban and rural areas of the household registration system as well as urban and rural other employment system, the lack of employment information supply mechanism for the new generation of migrant workers, the lack of education for information demand, acquisition method and professional orientation, poor social integrity lead to their low awareness, which is macroeconomic factors to restrict information acquisition ability of the new generation of migrant workers.Secondly, the paper apply GIS technology as well as non-parametric estimation method to reveal occupational mobility characteristics of the new generation of migrant workers from two dimensions of time and space and build a variety of econometric models to analyze the interaction between information acquisition and occupational mobility of from occupational mobility frequency, the direction of occupational mobility and occupational mobility type aspect. From space perspective, the majority of the new generation of migrant workers are from the Northeast in this survey, their occupational mobility have gone through from the north-south-southeast coast-northeast; From the time point of view, there presents cyclical changes on occupational mobility of the new generation of farmers workers, which are the peak to change jobs for them every12months. From information acquisition impacting on occupational mobility, there are frequent occupational mobility if the new of generation of migrant workers have high information acquisition awareness, more acquisition channels, advanced method of obtaining; It will benefit for occupation upward mobility of the new generation of migrant workers by using computer network channels to obtain jobs and owing more advanced information acquisition method; The formal occupational information channels, advanced information acquisition method and strong information acquisition awareness will increase occupational mobility of the new generation of migrant workers from the employment change and urban occupations of changes. From information acquisition impacting on occupational mobility, there are frequent occupational mobility if the new of generation of migrant workers have high information acquisition awareness, more acquisition channels, advanced method of obtaining; It will benefit for occupation upward mobility of the new generation of migrant workers by using computer network channels to obtain jobs and owing more advanced information acquisition method; The formal occupational information channels, advanced information acquisition method and strong information acquisition awareness will increase occupational mobility of the new generation of migrant workers from the employment change and urban changes in occupations. From occupational mobility impacting on information acquisition, occupational mobility have an influence on information acquisition of the new generation of migrant workers, but in addition to the frequency of occupational mobility, other aspect of occupational mobility only affect on a particular aspect of the access to information, which occupational mobility increase in frequency to improve the occupation information demands and acquisition method and broaden the acquisition channel to show that flowing again in the new generation of migrant workers will promote their professional information acquisition accumulation.Once again, based on the analysis of the existing urbanization evaluation index to put forward the urbanization meaning of migrant workers and analyze the degree of the urbanization samples comparatively; Through building SEM model to analyze empirically the influence mechanism between information acquisition,occupational mobility and urbanization of the new generation of migrant workers. The results show whether economic, social or heart, their degree of social integration and urbanization working in small and medium-sized cities superior to the major cities. The SEM model empirical results verify the theoretical framework presented in this paper that the occupational mobility impact on urbanization of the new generation of migrant workers and information acquisition affect on urbanization indirectly by occupation mobility, while there are positive relationship between information acquisition and occupational mobility of migrant workers.Finally, according to the conclusion of the study, we put up with policy ideas and measures of government guidance to promote the urbanization of the new generation of migrant workers. In the occupational mobility aspect, we should be a reasonable guide to help them achieve their employment upward mobility instead of emphasizing the employment stability and promote urbanization by enhancing occupational mobility of the new generation of migrant workers. In the information acquisition aspect, we must change the occupation acquisition awareness of the new generation of migrant workers positively and pay attention, nurture and explore their employment information needs of formal channels actively, we should guide the occupational information supply of formal channels logically, make effort to improve the information acquisition method, establish a network platform fitting for seeking jobs and guide its employment reasonably through the network channels to promote occupational upward mobility and process of urbanization. In addition, for the impact factors of the new generation of migrant workers information acquisition and occupational mobility, we propose that efforts should be made to improve the level of formal education of the new generation of migrant workers, strengthen their technical training while strengthening their vocational skills training in process of working in the city.