區(qū)域經(jīng)濟(jì)學(xué)regionaleconomicdevelopment第七章-文庫(kù)吧
2025-07-07 15:53 本頁(yè)面
【正文】 e markets are not perfect and also because not all labour responds just to economic incentives. But in the China case, the hukou system adds another layer of difficulty to the analysis because it means that workers are not pletely free to move. In practice, workers now are more free to move than was previously the case. But unregistered workers still have problems in terms of access to schools for children and being able to work for government, etc. This means that the market adjustment mechanism cannot work even if it was otherwise capable of solving the problem. The Chen and Groenewold paper that has been assigned considers this question of the impact of reducing the cost of migration. Basically the hukou system makes migration more expensive. Relaxing the rules about household registration will make it easier for workers to migrate and to take their families with them. Chen and Groenewold find that ? Reducing the costs of migration will reduce regional disparities BUT ? This will be at the expense of the already leading region, which for China is the coastal region. Remember that the way the migration solution works is that as workers move from the low wage region to the higher wage region, the supply of labour in the low wage region falls and the supply of labour in the high wage region rises. These supply changes will cause wages in the low wage region to increase and in the high wage region to decrease. So the high wage region will experience a fall in ine. The low wage region gains but part of that gain is at the expense of the high wage region. This means that the region that starts out ahead has a lot to lose from reducing regional disparities in this way. This means that the better off regions will argue against changing the hukou rules because it is in their interests for thin
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