Study On The Impact Of Rural Labor Mobility On The Consumption Gap Between Urban And Rural Residents

Rural labor transfer to city,the release of the surplus labor in rural areas,the income level of rural families,and raise the level of consumption of rural households,the consumption gap between urban and rural areas in a certain extent.Consumption is not only a key factor in promoting healthy economic growth,but also an important measure of people’s happiness.However,the consumption gap between urban and rural residents in China is still large,urban and rural residents in for a better life need to meet,there is a big gap on this will seriously affect our country expected to the achievement of common prosperity goal.In recent years,research on rural labor mobility and urban-rural consumption gap,academia is two relation,how worthy of our inquiry.Based on the theory of dual economic structure,Todaro model,precautionary savings theory and life cycle and enduring income theory,this study explores the influence mechanism of rural labor mobility on the urban and rural residents’ consumption gap,providing theoretical support for empirical testing.On this basis,this paper uses provincial panel data and Chinese Household Tracking Survey(CFPS)data to conduct empirical tests from macro and micro perspectives using fixed effect regression model.Under the macroscopic Angle of view,this article first to the present situation and evolution characteristics of the rural labor migration and the present situation of the consumption gap between urban and rural areas are analyzed.Then,this paper adopts provincial panel data to conduct empirical tests and draws macro-level conclusions.From the micro perspective,this paper first uses the unbalanced panel data of the three phases of CFPS to conduct fundamental regression,and then uses the variable replacement method and model replacement method to conduct robustness test.Then,empirical analysis is conducted on households with different characteristics to determine the impact of labor mobility on their consumption gap.This paper finds that:(1)In a certain range,rural labor mobility helps narrow the urban-rural consumption gap.At the macro level,when the level of rural labor mobility is small,improving the level of labor mobility can narrow the urban-rural consumption gap;At the micro level,the gap between rural households with labor mobility and urban consumption is smaller than that without labor mobility.(2)There is a non-linear relationship between rural labor mobility and urban-rural consumption gap,which is reflected in a U-shaped relationship.That is,with the improvement of rural labor mobility,the urban and rural residents’ consumption gap will shrink before expanding.At the micro level,this non-linear relationship shows that the consumption gap of families with labor mobility is smaller than that of families without labor mobility,while in families with labor mobility,the consumption gap will widen as labor mobility increases.Through further empirical testing of the nonlinear relationship at the micro level,it is found that the nonlinear relationship at the micro level is also u-shaped.(3)Rural labor mobility affects the income gap between urban and rural residents through labor productivity,and then affects the consumption gap:rural labor mobility and labor productivity are inverted U-shaped,labor productivity is negatively correlated with income gap,and income gap is positively correlated with consumption gap.(4)For rural households with different characteristics,the impact of labor mobility on the urban-rural consumption gap is also different.Families in the central region,middle income level and those with small number of children can reduce the consumption gap by labor mobility more than other families.Among the families with labor mobility,the consumption gap expands more with the increase of labor mobility in eastern regions,middle income level and families with large number of children.