Rural-urban migrants’ remittances and wage inequality: Evidence from China

IF 1.9 4区经济学 Q2 AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS & POLICY

Agricultural Economics-Zemedelska Ekonomika Pub Date : 2020-03-31 DOI:10.17221/53/2019-AGRICECON

Yunyun Wu, Xiaochun Li

引用次数: 2

Abstract

There is a link between rural-urban remittances and wage inequality. However, the existing literature sheds little light on this topic. In this study, we establish a three-sector general equilibrium model to investigate the effects of rural-urban migrants’ remittances on wage inequality. Further, we use Chinese macroeconomic data to calibrate the parameters and conduct analysis with numerical simulation. We find that, when rural-urban migrants raise their remittance rate, wage inequality between skilled labour and the urban formal sector remains unchanged in the sector-specific capital case but narrows in the sector-mobile capital case. Moreover, in the sector-specific case, skilled and unskilled wage inequalities, wSY and wSZ, decrease at the same rate as the urban-rural wage inequalities, wXY and wXZ, respectively. In the mobile case, however, the former declines faster than the latter.

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城乡移民汇款与工资不平等:来自中国的证据

城乡汇款与工资不平等之间存在联系。然而，现有的文献对这一主题知之甚少。本文建立了一个三部门一般均衡模型来考察城乡移民汇款对工资不平等的影响。此外，我们使用中国宏观经济数据来校准参数并进行数值模拟分析。我们发现，当城乡移民提高其汇款率时，熟练劳动力和城市正规部门之间的工资不平等在特定部门资本情况下保持不变，但在部门流动资本情况下缩小。此外，在特定行业的情况下，熟练和非熟练工资不平等wSY和wSZ分别以与城乡工资不平等wXY和wXZ相同的速度下降。然而，在移动领域，前者比后者下降得更快。

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来源期刊

Agricultural Economics-Zemedelska Ekonomika Agricultural Economics & Policy-

CiteScore

4.30

自引率

4.50%

发文量

审稿时长

30 weeks

期刊介绍： An international peer-reviewed journal published under the auspices of the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences and financed by the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic. Published since 1954 (by 1999 under the title Zemědělská ekonomika).Thematic scope: original scientific papers dealing with agricultural subjects from the sphere of economics, management, informatics, ecology, social economy and sociology. Since 1993 the papers continually treat problems which were published in the journal Sociologie venkova a zemědělství until now. An extensive scope of subjects in fact covers the whole of agribusiness, that means economic relations of suppliers and producers of inputs for agriculture and food industry, problems from the aspects of social economy and rural sociology and finally the economics of the population nutrition. Papers are published in English.