Study On Part-time Behavior Of Agriculture Mobility Of Labor

Since the reform and opening-up, the pace of agricultural mobility of labor in China accelerates step by step. As the scale of agricultural labor mobility increased, various modes of mobility formed, such as local mobility and inter-regional mobility, etc. Even though, except some complete mobility which means peasants become permanent citizens, the majority of laborers only serve as temporary workers, and there are no substantial variations in other contributing factors concerning the labor mobility. As a result, some of these laborers can but lead a from-hand-to-mouth life, or some of them are trapped in this repeated circulation which isolates them from municipal communities, as can be a vivid proof of difficulty of labor mobility. It is the outcome of single peasant's rational options that is indispensable for the social development, but this type of mobility, actually holds back the urbanization process on the whole. Hence, it is of great practical significance to study reasons that cause the part-time behavior and to discover efficient ways facilitating the labor mobility process.This thesis paper, on the basis of traditional theories of labor mobility, is in the position to render a brand-new way of analysis by constructing cost-revenue functions under various mobility conditions combining the risk decision-making method. And it also tries to uncover reasons why peasants choose different mobility behaviors, especially those cost-revenue factors which greatly influence peasants' behaviors. By comparing costs and revenues concerning different behaviors, it indicates that a variety of costs and their paying abilities give rise to peasants' diverse choices. Some feasible suggestions aiming at maintaining everlasting and smooth labor mobility arc given at the end of this paper.