| On February 22,2022,the No.1 Central document was released,laying out the deployment of key tasks for comprehensively promoting rural revitalization in 2022,and once again emphasizing the importance of rural revitalization in the national development level.Rural revitalization,especially economic revitalization,is inseparable from human construction.The returning labor force,who has accumulated certain amount of material and human capital due to the experience of migrant work and has a deep emotional connection with their hometown,is an important effective force for rural construction.The quantitative analysis of the income changes of this group before and after returning home is conducive to quantifying the income of the returning labor force,deepening the cognition of the income changes of the returning migrant workers,and is of great significance for the formulation of policies to improve the income of the returning labor force,stimulating the endogenous power of migrant workers as the main body of rural construction,and helping the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy.On the basis of domestic and foreign studies,this paper combined the status quo and individual characteristics of the returning migrant workers,hypothesized the change of returning labor income,adopted the propensity score matching model,after eliminating the selectivity bias and endogenous interference,Based on a large number of household survey data provided by "China Labor Dynamics Survey(CLDS)" in2016,this paper analyzes the impact of returning to the countryside on the income of rural returning labor and the differences of this impact among different groups.Then,based on the author’s own research data in 2021,the robustness of the CLDS data analysis results was tested with the same measurement method.The results show that the return of rural labor has a negative impact on the income of rural labor,that is,the average annual income of rural labor after returning to the hometown decreases by3963 yuan,or 17.33%.After further heterogeneity analysis on the individual characteristics,location and duration of returning labor force,it is found that the income of female labor force decreases more than that of male labor force.The income of the labor force with high human capital,such as higher education and younger labor force,decreased more than that of the labor force with low human capital.The income decline of returning labor force in eastern region is less than that in central region and less than that in western region.Those who returned home for a shorter period saw their incomes fall more than those who returned for a longer period.The quantitative analysis of the survey data in 2021 shows that the annual income of the returning labor force decreased by 24,224 yuan,a decrease of 32.52%,which is consistent with the direction of the CLDS data analysis results,and once again verifies the negative impact of returning to the countryside on the income of the rural labor force.On the above research results,this article from the liberation of female labor force,increasing the human capital play home labor work and lower switching cost three sides facing the government policy to put forward the following opinions:establishing and perfecting the rural old-age,nursery service system,to promote rural industries,increase the number of jobs,improve the employment quality,broaden the employment channels,to provide comprehensive employment service in a timely manner. |
