Political Economy of Labor Mobility

Author: Cai Fang
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: Contemporary Economics Series. This series is dedicated to promoting the modernization and international standardization of Chinese economics, aiming to gradually complete the transition of Chinese economy from tradition to modernity in terms of research scope, content, methods, and analytical techniques within a relatively short period. We sincerely hope that economists will support our pursuit by contributing high-quality standard economic works to this series, thereby jointly working to elevate the level of Chinese economics and establish it firmly in the global economics landscape. This book employs a theoretical framework of political economy to comprehensively analyze the issue of labor mobility and conducts corresponding empirical research, hoping to contribute to the in-depth study of this field. Since the mid-1980s, labor mobility and population migration have become a socially significant phenomenon of widespread concern and a hot topic for theoretical research and discussion. The authors of this book have long been concerned with the "three rural" issues caused by urban-rural division, particularly the related issue of labor mobility between urban and rural areas. In this book, they use a political economic theoretical framework to study the mobility of rural labor in China between urban and rural areas and across regions. This crucial phenomenon in China's economic development process comprehensively analyzes the issue of labor mobility caused by urban-rural division in China and conducts corresponding empirical research. China's unique institutional phenomena and rapid changes make the research in this book highly significant in practice and academically theoretically valuable. The book is logically rigorous, with detailed notes, and utilizes a wealth of statistical data and charts, making it worth reading.