Migrant Worker' s Economic Status and Social Attitude in the Transition of China

Migrant workers, connoting those who used to be farmers but now have left rural areas and found jobs in cities, are becoming a new group resulted from economic reform and development of China.This group, contributing a lot to the burgeoning labor market in China, has played an important role in speeding up the transition of the country from a planned to a market economy as well as its modernization drive.This article is based on analysis of a large-scale survey in 2006 , which was conducted by means of questionnaire and covered 28 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions throughout the country .Analysis shows that the income status of the migrant workers depends heavily on education and technical skills they have developed instead of the factor of identitybased discrimination.It was also found, to everybody' s surprise , that those of less income and lower economic and social status show more positive attitudes to the society . This may result in a conclusion that the decisive factor in the attitude and behavior of migrant workers is historical logic instead of the economic one.

李培林;李炜;

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