Abstract
The health shocks caused by air pollution seriously interfere with people’s economic life. Based on the air pollution index and health shock index calculated by the principal component entropy weight method, this article analyzes the impact of air pollution on labor mobility, and adopts the mediation effect model to test the mediation effect of health shocks, using the threshold model to analyze the time and the health shocks threshold effect of air pollution on labor mobility. Its conclusions are as follows: (1) Air pollution has a negative impact on the net inflow of labor mobility, and the net inflow of labor mobility decreases between 24.9% and 44.7% on average for each unit increase in the health shocks of air pollution. (2) The impact of air pollution on labor mobility is all caused by health shocks; the health shocks are also an important factor influencing the decrease in the labor mobility supply across provinces, and the different health levels of the migrating individuals due to air pollution. (3) The health shocks of air pollution have a single-time threshold effect on labor mobility, and the health shocks of air pollution in China have intensified after 2010, confirming that China’s Lewis turning point was 2010. (4) The attraction effect of stable and higher regional real income will partially offset the repulsion effect of health shocks of air pollution on labor mobility, when the health-shocks index of air pollution exceeds the threshold value of 1.9873. Finally, the policy implications of the health shocks of air pollution on labor mobility are also formulated.
Highlights
The environment, health and reasonable labor mobility are currently hot social topics
We can see that the lz line shows a positive tendency, and other three lines are showing a negative trend, indicating that the growth in the health shocks of air pollution may be closely related to the decline of the net inflow rate of labor mobility
5% confidence level, indicating that air pollution will reduce the net inflow of labor mobility, and the negative impact is further confirmed in column (4)
Summary
The environment, health and reasonable labor mobility are currently hot social topics. The early stage of labor mobility (1949–1978) In this stage, only a small number of migrant workers can be migrated to another place, especially to the cities, and labor mobility is mainly based on the government’s planned policies to serve social stability and economic development. The middle stage of labor mobility (1979–2010) In this stage, laborers begin to flee their regulated workplace for a better income, and the labor mobility scale across regions is growing. Laborers begin to flee their regulated workplace for a better income, and the labor mobility scale across regions is growing
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