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3. Economic and Environmental Effects of Rural-Urban Migrant Training

Authors : Xiaochun Li, Yu Zhou

Published in: Labor Transfer in Emerging Economies

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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Abstract

In this chapter, we conduct the simple comparative static analysis of the environmental and economic effects of the government and producer services sector’s training of rural-urban migrants. We mainly focus our attention on environmental issues and reach the following conclusions: When the government lowers the interest rate of training loans, environmental conditions will worsen. However, when the producer services sector increases the unit cost of training rural labor, the opposite effect occurs, and environmental conditions will improve. In addition, we discuss the conditions under which a government reduction in the interest rate of training loans will lead to the reduction of pollution damage to agricultural production and a decrease in social utility.

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Footnotes
1
In the present paper, human capital investment refers purely to the vocational training. Generally speaking, the human capital level is roughly measured by the educational year, and here we treat the vocational training as a way to compensate for the lack of educational year.
 
3
In the present paper, we assume that the wage rate of the manufacturing sector is downward rigid because people who are employed in the urban sectors usually receive contractually obligated wage rates or are protected by minimum wage acts or the labor union in urban areas. The same assumption of the downward rigid manufacturing wage rate (especially in the frame of Harris-Todaro model) can be also found in Grinols (1991), Gupta (1993), Tawada and Sunqin (2010), Xiaochun Li and Xiaoying Qian (2011), etc.
 
4
The change of c has ambiguous impacts on the loss of agricultural production due to the environmental pollution and the social utility level.
 
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Metadata
Title
Economic and Environmental Effects of Rural-Urban Migrant Training
Authors
Xiaochun Li
Yu Zhou
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_3