交通基础设施的可获得性与贫困村劳动力迁移——来自贫困村农户的证据

Access to Transportation Infrastructure and Labor Migration in Poor Villages:Evidence from Rural Households in Poor Villages

自1998年起,中国进行了大规模的公路交通基础设施建设。本文着眼于交通基础设施影响农村劳动力迁移的微观途径,使用2009年、2011年和2013年贫困村农户面板数据,探讨了公路基础设施的可获得性对贫困村劳动力迁移的作用及影响程度。本文的估计结果表明,农村公路的可获得性对贫困村劳动力迁移具有正向作用。此外,本文还发现,位于西部地区贫困村的农户、公路可获得性更差的贫困村农户和通信状况良好的贫困村农户的劳动力迁移受公路基础设施可获得性的影响更大。因此我们应该根据当地情况进行贫困村公路的建设投资,以促进农村劳动力资源的合理配置。

Since 1998,the Chinese government has been carrying out a large-scale transportation infrastructure construction.This paper looks at the impact of transportation infrastructure on rural labor migration through a micro perspective.Using rural household data of poor villages in 2009,2011 and 2013,this paper explores the relationship between access to transportation infrastructure and rural labor migration.According to the empirical results,access to rural roads has a significant impact on rural labor migration in poor villages.Furthermore,we find that access to transportation infrastructure has a greater impact on households of poor villages in western regions as well as households of poor villages having worse access to roads and better communication conditions.So we should narrow the gap between transportation infrastructure among poor villages so as to promote the reallocation of rural labor force.