Abstract
Since the times when China has started to implement economic reforms, regulation of national migration, especially in the direction from rural areas to large cities, has become one of the core issues in modernization of the whole system of its public management. Consequently, this issue has also become interesting for economic and sociological research. This article studies today’s peculiarities of internal labor migration in China and analyzes historic and contemporary forms of the migration policy implementation in this country. The author also discusses the major preconditions for its efficiency as well as opportunities for using certain instruments of Chinese migration policy in modernization of Thailand migration policy, taking into account contemporary economic, social and political challenges.
Highlights
Studies on internal labor migration have become popular and even already traditional during the last couple decades
Seminal studies by John Harris and Michael Todaro have determined the formation of a two-sector model which describes how internal labor migration depends on the differences in wages between rural and urban areas [1]
Hukou system was officially introduced by Chinese authorities back in the 1960s, and initially it was not aimed on regulation of migration but rather on prevention measures which were supposed to “tie” peasants to the land despite all the opportunities created by quickly developing industrialization and urbanization
Summary
Studies on internal labor migration have become popular and even already traditional during the last couple decades. Seminal studies by John Harris and Michael Todaro have determined the formation of a two-sector model which describes how internal labor migration depends on the differences in wages between rural and urban areas [1]. This theoretical approach of Harris & Todaro has been later proved numerous times in the course of empirical studies, observations and experiments [2] carried out in many countries, including China. Hukou system was officially introduced by Chinese authorities back in the 1960s, and initially it was not aimed on regulation of migration but rather on prevention measures which were supposed to “tie” peasants to the land despite all the opportunities created by quickly developing industrialization and urbanization
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