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- Title
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS ON THE URBAN-RURAL DISPARITY IN HUMAN CAPITAL IN CHINA.
- Authors
Xiaochun Li; Xiaoying Qian
- Abstract
With China's economic development and capital accumulation in the industrial sectors, the human capital level of the labours moving from the rural areas could no longer meet the demand of the industrial sectors. Therefore, 'structural shortage of technical labour' emerged in the labour 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 labour 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 labour 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 labour,' but also have a positive effect on the general social welfare.
- Subjects
CHINA; HUMAN capital; LABOR service; REGIONAL economic disparities; ECONOMIC conditions in China; HISTORY
- Publication
South African Journal of Economics, 2011, Vol 79, Issue 2, p146
- ISSN
0038-2280
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1813-6982.2011.01277.x