Prague Economic Papers 2013, 22(3):385-402 | DOI: 10.18267/j.pep.458

Economic and Environmental Effects of Rural-Urban Migrant Training

Xiaochun Li, Yu Zhou
Department of Economics, Nanjing University, 22 Hankou Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province 210093, China.

In this paper, we conduct the simple comparative static analysis of the environmental and economic effects of the government and producer services sector's training of rural-urban migrants. We mainly focus our attention on environmental issues and reach the following conclusions: When the government lowers the interest rate of training loans, environmental conditions will worsen. However, when the producer services sector increases the unit cost of training rural labour, the opposite effect occurs, and environmental conditions will improve. In addition, we discuss the conditions under which a government reduction in the interest rate of training loans will lead to the reduction of pollution damage to agricultural production and a decrease in social utility.

Keywords: environment effects, low interest rate loan, employee vocational training, rural-urban migration
JEL classification: J24, R23

Published: January 1, 2013  Show citation

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Li, X., & Zhou, Y. (2013). Economic and Environmental Effects of Rural-Urban Migrant Training. Prague Economic Papers, 22(3), 385-402. doi: 10.18267/j.pep.458
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