劳动力迁移收入转移与贫困变化

Migration and Poverty Reduction

农村劳动力向城市地区的迁移日益普遍 ,贫困地区也不例外。本文利用中国西部贫困地区的农户调查资料 ,对迁移收入转移及其对贫困状态的影响进行了实证性研究 ,并具体分析了迁移收入转移的决定因素。本文研究表明 ,中国贫困地区的劳动力迁移行为与“利他性”假说相吻合 ,这表明贫困地区的劳动力迁移可以视作一种积极的反贫困行为。通过对调查数据的具体分析 ,本文也发现劳动力迁移的确成为缓解贫困的重要因素。但是由于迁移人口与其他家庭成员处于不同的消费群体 。

This paper employs rural household survey data collected in poor areas of western China to analyze remittance and its impacts on poverty reduction and interprets the determinants of remittance. The research indicates that the pattern of rural labor migration follows the hypothesis of altruism, which shows the active response of migrants to poverty. The paper finds that migration does affect the state of poverty and is an important factor of poverty reduction. On the other hand, as a different consumption group, the welfare of migrants may be over-estimated.