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Research On The Impact Of Human Capital On New-generation Migrant Workers’ Occupational Mobility

Posted on:2015-03-28Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y H LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1269330428497550Subject:Agricultural Economics and Management
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With industrialization and urbanization quickening in China, rural surplus labor transfer to non-agricultural industries in turn and the decreasing number and proportion of agricultural population have been an essential part of country’s modernization process. Looking at the results of the migration classical theory and migration history and patterns of developed countries and combining with the practice that China’s rural surplus labor transfer from rural to urban,which suggests that smooth and orderly metastasis of rural labor in urban and rural areas is an inevitable choice that achieves the country’s industrialization, population urbanization and agricultural modernization. According to the National Bureau of Statistics data shows that the total quality of migrant workers reach260million in2012. Huge number of rural labor flow between urban and rural areas make a significant contribution to China’s economic growth. While, due to be limited by household registration system, dual labor market segmentation and human capital constraints of migrant workers,which generate a series of phenomenon such as whether human capital constraints working change of migrant workers, job change direction is upward, downward or horizontal and working transformation is "docked" or "migrate" that is called "occupational mobility". And then occupational mobility relates to wages of migrant workers, so wages also become the most important indicator to measure survival and development of migrant workers. Further, migrant workers, especially the new generation of migrant workers after80s and90s have became a subject of population urbanization and an important part of the city’s floating population, their occupational mobility have became a key to break a series of issues China’s current social and economic development. So, based on current, how is occupational mobility situation of new generation of migrant workers, what kind of situation and law show us? What factors influence the flow direction? Further, what the new generation of migrant workers occupation will change? Is "docked" or "migrate"? If choosing"migration",is it transformed "new work" or entrepreneurship? how to start employment wishes? What is the basis for their decision-making?The main contents including:(1)On the basis of theoretical analysis of population migration, drawing on research results abroad and building the theoretical model, which make the "cost-benefit" as analysis framework, focus on "docked person-migrants" and set occupational mobility as the main line.(2)Counting the cross comparative analysis on the different ages of the new generation of migrant workers, men and women in-both groups, job type, industry type, city type, different income groups and the direction and wishes of occupational mobility to reveal characteristics and occupational mobility law ministry of the new generation of farmers.(3)Study the infection of human capital on the new generation of migrant workers’ wages; And then, the wage changes of current job companying with last one are regarded as standard of occupational mobility direction, examining the occupational mobility direction of the new generation of migrant workers.(4)On the basis of the accurate and comprehensive investigation,we analyze empirically occupational mobility wishes of the new generation of migrant workers and estimate the factors that human capital impact occupational mobility wishes of the new generation of migrant workers; Further, based on the professional mobility wishes, we focus on the factors of entrepreneurial employment and measure its impact.(5) On the basis of these studies, we set perspective of human social capital accumulation,research how to improve the employability of the new generation of migrant workers, guard occupational mobility to improve employment quality in reason and put forward to policy recommendations that can promote a stable and orderly mobility of the new generation of migrant workers.Research formed the following conclusions:First of all, observe the impact of human capital on wages from the new generation of migrant workers, the three variable showing human capital level including the years number of education, job time and the presence of skilled practitioners all have a significant positive effect on wages.Moreover construction industry variables affecting on wages is extremely significant; the larger of city, the greater degree of influence on the wage of the new of migrant workers.Secondly, from the direction human capital on occupational mobility, the human capital accumulation can promote upward mobility of the new of migrant workers, more occupational mobility is likely to cause a low level and frequent horizontal flow, taking the initiative approach to flow is likely to change their career choices and achieve upward occupational mobility. Further you can find, in addition that human capital is the important factor for affecting the new generation of migrant workers, the occupational mobility and career mobility also affect the direction of occupational mobility.Thirdly, from the willingness to choose of human capital on the new generation of migrant workers, the longer practitioners time tend to make them choose"continue to engage in this work"; the new of migrant workers owning higher level of education and internet training are more inclined to "occupational mobility". The variables of measuring human capital such as education, employment time, skills and training are important factors for affecting occupational mobility occurs. Summarizing specific features on occupational mobility wishes from the new generation of migrant workers, we can see that the labor who continues to engage in this work owns higher productivity, which consistent with the basic model of Blumen on"migrants-docked".Fourthly, from the impact of entrepreneurial willingness from human capital on the new generation of migrant workers, human capital has a significant impact on the new generation of migrant workers’ willingness of entrepreneurial employment. The higher the education level, faster ability to accept new things,improving its ability to innovate and imitate and identifying and capturing business opportunities better,which are more likely to choose entrepreneurship; participating in the training have a significant positive influence on improving the current level of wages of migrant workers, but with higher wages, entrepreneurial dynamism and willingness will be decreased. In addition,social capital correlates positively with entrepreneurial intention from the new of migrant workers; There exists the differences of age and gender on entrepreneurial intention employment from the new of migrant workers.The innovation of this study are the following:Firstly, in terms of conception and research perspective, drawing on the research results abroad, building a theoretical model that make the"cost-benefit"as analysis framework,focus on"docked-migrants" and set occupational mobility as the main line, according to the different stages of occupational mobility, researching the infection of human capital on the new generation of migrant workers from two aspects of occupational mobility behavior and wishes. Secondly, in terms of research, this article correct the age of the new of migrant workers with career development stage for young people over the same period and divide age into the "social battles period ","occupation run-in period " and "career start period",extend the expedition on different ages of the new of migrant workers. Emphasis on the differences between groups (gender, industry, region, etc.) between the different generation of migrant workers, expanding the study to its internal changes and differences between different groups.Thirdly, in terms of research methods, the article use quantile regression model to build extensions Mincer wage equation, compare with results of OLS regression and explore the wage differences between different income groups. Based on changes in wages, using the wage differences that current work compared with last one as changing standards of occupational mobility, introducing occupational mobility mode (active and passive) variables to portray accurately the current occupational mobility. On the basis of previous studies, the sample of the new generation of migrant workers was divided into two categories:"continue to engage in this work" and "occupational mobility", refining "migration" further. That is to expand the "docked person-migrants" models.
Keywords/Search Tags:the new generation of migrant workers, human capital, occupational mobility, behavior, willingness
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