Health Status and Earnings of Migrant Workers from Rural China  

作　　者：Lijian Qin Chien-Ping Chen Xun Liu Chenggang Wang Zhongyi Jiang 

机构地区：[1]Finance and Public Administrative School, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu, China [2]School of Business Administration, University of Houston-Victoria, Sugar Land, TX, USA [3]Department of Educational Psychology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA [4]Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA [5]Research Center for Rural Economy, Ministry of Agriculture, Beijing, China

出　　处：《China & World Economy》2015年第2期84-99,共16页中国与世界经济（英文版）

基　　金：The authors are grateful for the support of the National Social Science Foundation of China （13CGL 102）, the Ministry of Education of China （12YJC790152）, the National Post-doctoral Council of China （2012M510316） and the National Post-doctoral Council of China （2013T60058）.

摘　　要：The migration of rural laborers into cities for employment has been one of the main driving forces of China＇s economic growth over the past three decades. Based on a dataset collected by the Ministry of Agriculture of China from 2003 to 2007, this paper examines the impact of health on the earnings of migrant workers engaging in physically-intensive work requiring good health. Our findings indicate that a poor health status not only weakens the incentive of rural laborers to participate in the migrant labor force but also significantly reduces their earnings. A migrant worker in poor health only earns 67percent of what a healthy worker makes. Among all the human capital characteristics and family economic factors, health status is the most influential on earnings for less educated workers. Labor productivity has a greater impact on earnings than the annual number of days that aperson works. Ongoing health-care reforms aimed at the improvement of the health-care services available to rural laborers are urged to help reduce poverty in rural China.The migration of rural laborers into cities for employment has been one of the main driving forces of China＇s economic growth over the past three decades. Based on a dataset collected by the Ministry of Agriculture of China from 2003 to 2007, this paper examines the impact of health on the earnings of migrant workers engaging in physically-intensive work requiring good health. Our findings indicate that a poor health status not only weakens the incentive of rural laborers to participate in the migrant labor force but also significantly reduces their earnings. A migrant worker in poor health only earns 67percent of what a healthy worker makes. Among all the human capital characteristics and family economic factors, health status is the most influential on earnings for less educated workers. Labor productivity has a greater impact on earnings than the annual number of days that aperson works. Ongoing health-care reforms aimed at the improvement of the health-care services available to rural laborers are urged to help reduce poverty in rural China.

关 键 词：EARNINGS HEALTH labor market migrant workers 

分 类 号：F124.7[经济管理—世界经济] F323.6