Study On Factors Influencing Migrant Workers Employment Quality And It’s Mechanism

China is in the stage of industrialization and urbanization, there will be moreand more rural surplus labor transfer to non-agricultural industries and urbangradually. To solve the employment problem of the migrant workers, is not onlythe urgent task of maintaining the relationship among reform, development andstability, and also the strategic task of building socialism with Chinese characteristics.To build a migrant workers employment quality evaluation system, this dissertationevaluate the status quo of the current quality of migrant workers employment inJiangxi province comprehensively and objectively. It analyzes the influencing factorson the quality of the migrant workers employment and its mechanism of action fromthe perspective of human capital, social capital and occupational mobility. Accordingto the above analysis, it puts forward the countermeasures of improving the qualityof migrant workers employment advice.1、This dissertation defines the definition of migrant workers and migrantworkers employment quality and the quality of employment on the research of labortransfer theory and other related theories. Using a large amount of investigation data,the dissertation describes the current status of the quality of migrant workersemployment in Jiangxi province from such aspects as migrant workers wages,employment rights and interests of security and migrant workers’ careerdevelopment and so on. It comes to the conclusion that the quality of migrantworkers employment is low in Jiangxi province at present. And the dissertationanalyzes the cause of it from the aspects of system, the reality of the employmentand migrant workers themselves.2、This dissertation defines the definition and connotation of migrant workers’human capital, social capital and occupational mobility on the research of relatedtheories. According to the specific situation of the migrant workers, it determines theindex of measuring migrant workers’ human capital, social capital and occupationalmobility. It analyzes the mutual influence among human capital, social capital andoccupational mobility from positive and negative aspects. This dissertation illustratesthe influence of the above factors on the employment quality of migrant workers.3、According to the characteristics of migrant workers employment quality,this study set up the evaluation index system of migrant workers employment quality basing on the employment theory, labor transfer employment theory, job search anddevelopment theory and job satisfaction theory by using the Delphi method andanalytic hierarchy process （AHP）.4、This dissertation describes a general picture of the human capital statusaccording to the data and makes empirical analysis on the quality of the migrantworkers employment quality on the basis of relevant theories of human capital.Results show a positive correlation between year of the education, skills certificate,self-evaluation of health and the employment quality index. Results also shows thatmonthly income of migrant workers，employment stability, the interpersonalrelationship satisfaction and the degree of optimism towards job are on the rise trendalong with the increasing years of the education. The satisfaction degree of theworking conditions rises after the first drop.5、This dissertation describes a general picture of the social capital statusmigrant workers according to the data and makes empirical analysis on the migrantworkers employment quality basing on relevant theories of social capital. Resultshows a positive correlation between network quality index and migrant workersemployment quality. With the improvement of social network quality, migrantworkers employment quality, the possibility of promotion and the degree ofoptimistic about employment prospects are on the rise. With the expansion of socialcapital using in migrant workers employment, the average index of employmentquality drops after the first rising. The average index of employment quality of themigrant workers’ who obtain employment opportunity through strong-relationshipsocial capital is slightly higher than the same of those who obtain employmentopportunity through weak-relationship social capital. The subjective satisfactiondegree of the former is higher than the same of the latter. While the income of theformer is lower than the same of the latter. The construction and expansion ofmigrant workers’ second social capital are beneficial to the improvement of thequality of their employment quality.6、This dissertation describes a general picture of the occupational mobility ofmigrant workers according to the data and makes empirical analysis on the migrantworkers employment quality basing on relevant theories of occupational mobility.Result shows that with the increase of number of changing jobs, the average index ofmigrant workers’ employment quality rise after the first drop. Using SPSS18.0, makea logistic regression analysis on the data by setting the intention of changing job as dependent variable and the migrant workers’ personal basic situations as independentvariable. The result shows that objective conditions of employment are the mainfactors affecting the intention of changing job. Among which, the monthly incomeand satisfaction of working conditions are the two biggest factors on it. Thedissertation illustrates the influence of employment quality to occupational mobilityin the framework of labor migration “push-pull” theory, two-stage-migration theoryof farmer-migrant work-citizen, Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory and behavioraldecision theory.7、This dissertation analyzes the effect of various factors on the migrant workersemployment quality by building SEM（Structural Equation Modeling）. And it isconcluded that the human capital factor is the most significant influence factor onmigrant workers employment quality.8、Basing on the illustration of migrant workers employment quality, thedissertation put forward the following suggestion: reinforcing basic education of themigrant workers and optimizing vocational training system, improving the socialenvironment for migrant workers employment, perfecting recruitment system andsafeguarding legitimate rights and interests of migrant workers, and othercomprehensive measures.