Impacts of the Diversity of Migrant Labor Skills on Urban-Rural Integration:Empirical Evidence Based on the Counties in the Yangtze River Economic Belt
This paper measures the level of urban-rural integration development in the counties of the Yangtze River Economic Belt by the entropy method,and uses the data from the National Monitoring of Mobility Survey to construct indicators of the diversity of migrant labor skills,then empirically tests the effects and mechanisms of the diversity of migrant labor skills on the development of urban-rural integra-tion in the counties.The study found that:the level of urban-rural integration development in the counties in the Yangtze River Economic Belt shows a fluctuating upward trend and a spatially divergent pattern of downstream counties＞upstream counties＞midstream counties;the diversity of migrant labor skills can significantly contribute to urban-rural integration in the county,while there is regional heterogeneity in the impact and in the direction of inflow.The effect of the diversity of migrant labor skills in promoting urban-rural integration in counties is more pronounced in downstream counties and in urban cluster counties,and the effect of diversity of migrant labor skill diversity in rural areas is greater.Mechanistic tests reveal that the diversity of migrant labor skills accelerates the formation of a thick labor market,promotes agricultural technology innovation and in turn promotes urban-rural integration in the county.
diversity of migrant labor skillsurban-rural integrationagricultural technology innova-tionthick labor market
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