
浙江财经学院硕士学位论文
ABSTRACT
It is widely believed that with the increase in the scale of Chinese rural labor
mobility in recent years, the income gap between urban and rural areas is not only
reduced, but also expanding. It is contrary to the dual economy theory. In this regard,
some scholars believe that Chinese reality is that the flow of surplus labor in rural
areas just migrant workers transfers. That only occupational transfer is not to obtain
urban status. And compared to urban residents, the level of wages of migrant workers
is too low; otherwise, some scholars believe that the reason for this paradox is due to
Chinese statistics illusion. That reflects the income gap between urban and rural
residents in China Statistical Yearbook of urban resident’s per capita disposable
income and rural per capita net income of distortion of data exists in. How the truth?
This article is based on the theme of the controversy surrounding the relationship of
the rural labor mobility and urban-rural income gap discusses.
First, the first part of the article sort out and analyze the relevant theoretical
literature to introduction of the Kuznets inverted ‘U’-type hypothesis and analysis.
That Chinese urban-rural income gap has begun to narrow. And this section highlights
the Lewis dual economy theory, it clearly defines the dual economy structure, pointed
out that the differences in the modern and traditional sectors, describes the inner
mechanism in the impact of the income gap and provides a theoretical basis for the
development of developing countries.
The second part of the article is to make a theoretical analysis between the wages of
migrant workers urban-rural income gap. It is the threshold formula of wages for
migrant workers affects the income gap between urban and rural areas. The migrant
workers’ wage growth to narrow the income gap, the key is whether the wages of
migrant workers over a certain threshold. The factors that determine this threshold
coefficient mainly rural population proportion in the total population, urban
population proportion in the total population and previous urban-rural income ratio.
Through the collation of data analysis that over the past decade, the wages of migrant
workers is certainly conducive to narrowing the income gap between urban and rural
areas.
The third part of the article analyzes the statistics caliber. Analysis of the urban and
rural residents in China Statistical Yearbook, Bureau of Statistics indeed omitted from
the wages of migrant workers. The distortion data causes the income gap between
urban and rural areas have been exaggerated. The total income of rural residents and
the total income of urban residents have increased in varying degrees by adjusting the
wages of migrant workers. This is mainly the migrant workers higher income to
farmers that engaged in agricultural production, relative to the rural areas compared
with urban residents, the income of migrant workers are relatively low. So
re-allocation of the wages of migrant workers return to the countryside, the total
income of urban residents is also a corresponding increase in. The adjusted data show
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