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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

2. Economic Analysis on the Urban–Rural Disparity in Human Capital in China

Authors : Xiaochun Li, Xiaoying Qian

Published in: Labor Transfer in Emerging Economies

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

With China’s economic development and capital accumulation in the industrial sectors, the human capital level of the labors moving from the rural areas could no longer meet the demand of the industrial sectors. Therefore, “structural shortage of technical labor” emerged in the labor market as a result of excess of demand for high-skilled workers. Previous literature mostly focused on the relationship between rural human capital level and labor movement, income change, and economic growth, but in this article, the authors focus on the study of the relative disparity of urban and rural human capital and labor movement, as well as the effect of the change of urban–rural human capital gap on industrial output, profit, and social welfare. This article shows that bridging the urban–rural gap in respect of human capital level could not only improve the situation of the “structural shortage of technical labor” but also have a positive effect on the general social welfare.

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Footnotes
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Data source: Chinese Demographic Statistics Yearbook from 1997 to 2007. The detailed approach sees: Delong, H. (2005). Empirical analysis of the contribution of human capital to economic growth in Jiangxi. In J. Shaoseng and H. Delong (eds), Development in the Interior Regions of China and Regional Corporation. Beijing: People’s Press of Beijing, 168–169.
 
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Metadata
Title
Economic Analysis on the Urban–Rural Disparity in Human Capital in China
Authors
Xiaochun Li
Xiaoying Qian
Copyright Year
2017
Publisher
Springer Singapore
Book
Labor Transfer in Emerging Economies

Print ISBN: 978-981-10-3568-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-10-3569-2

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3569-2_2