Research On The Impact Of Social Capital On Farmers’ Poverty Reduction From The Perspective Of Labor Mobility

Since the 1980 s,social capital has gradually become a hot concept that has attracted much attention.Scholars in many disciplines such as sociology,political science,and economics have conducted extensive research on its connotation and function.Social capital has shown strong generalization and explanatory power for many problems in economic growth and social development.After material capital and human capital,it has been included in the research of economics as a third form of capital.As the largest developing country,since the formal implementation of the poverty alleviation and development project in China in the 1980 s,the infrastructure construction and implementation of policies in poverty-stricken areas have been significantly improved,and the anti-poverty effect is obvious to all.At the same time,as a populous country,labor mobility and its rational allocation are also issues related to people’s livelihood in the development process.Many scholars’ research has found that social capital has a positive effect on many aspects of economic development,and has a significant positive impact on the governance of poverty.The study of the microscopic performance of rural household poverty from the perspective of social capital has great realistic meaning.Based on the sample of rural households in the 2014 Chinese Family Panel Studies(CFPS),this paper selects relatives contacts,family activities,and the organization member as the proxy variables of social capital.The domestic poverty line and the international poverty line are used as the measure of poverty among farmers.The basic regression and robustness test were performed using OLS regression,quantile regression,Logit model,and Probit model.On this basis,the mediator of “labor flow” is introduced,based on Logit model and Tobit model,to verify and analyze the labor mobility effect of social capital affecting farmers’ poverty.Through theoretical analysis and empirical test,the following conclusions can be drawn: First,social capital can significantly alleviate the poverty of farmers regardless of domestic or international standards.Second,In provinces with different degrees of marketization,different social capitals have different effects on farmers’ poverty.Third,social capital contributes to the outflow of rural labor through information transmission effects,income-increasing effects,and cost reduction effects.Fourth,labor mobility is a positive anti-poverty action and it plays an obviously great role in the anti-poverty process.Fifth,although human capital is not the focus of this paper,the empirical results once again verify the positive impact of human capital on farmers’ poverty reduction.Finally,relevant policy recommendations are proposed based on the results of the full text research.The first is to improve the supply of rural public goods and help farmers to accumulate social capital.The second is to raise the awareness of social capital investment of low-income groups and guide farmers to use social capital.Then,in the central and western regions,it is still necessary to encourage the cultivation of traditional kinship-type social capital.Next,it is necessary to integrate labor mobility into poverty alleviation strategy planning,and pay attention to it from policy and organization.Finally,We must continue to strengthen investment in rural education and give play to the synergy between human capital and social capital.