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| In the last three decades, China has reached enviable achievement in term of economy. After economic reform in 1978, great number of rural labour was migrating from traditional agricultural sectors to industrials sectors. The average rural net income was increased over 4000 yuan at 2008. Form the empirical studies, component of China's rural income were changed structurally. Over 1/3 income was sourcing from non-agricultural works.
Through by analysing the database of Chinese Household and Nutrition Survey, this study was estimating how human and social capital influences rural income under assumption of transferring and migration. As the result, age, whether marriage, education experiences, whether transferring and migration, gender and location were significantly influencing rural income. Especially, marriage has the significant negative effect. Moreover, return on education has positive scaling effects. However, transferring and migration will increase gender discrimination to female. Furthermore, the regional disparities were also significant. The labour who from central of China have more advantages than labour from north or west when they transferring and migration. In south of China, gender discrimination is not serious as same as north. |
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| Keywords:labor economics; migration; rural income |
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