›› 2012, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (2): 0-328.

• 农业经济 •    

Effect of rural migrant workers school on the promotion of human capital and social capital :

DAI Guo-qin   

  1. China Academy for Rural Development, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310007,China
  • Received:1900-01-01 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2012-03-25 Published:2012-03-25

Abstract: Human capital(HC) and social capital(SC) have fundamental effect on rural migrant workers’(RMW)survival and development in cities and rural labor forces longterm transfer. Training and education are main ways to promote HC and SC. At present, the opportunities of training and education for RMW are only a few and the results of training and education are not very ideal. Building industry is one of main industries which absorb RMW, and rural migrant workers schools (RMWS) are special training and education platform for RMW in building industry. This paper took Hangzhous RMWS in building sites as an example,investigated the effect of RMWS on the promotion of RMWs HC and SC through empirical study. The results showed that the attending times of RMWS, and the degree of satisfaction to forms and contents of teaching in RMWS were remarkably and positively correlated with HC and SC.

Key words: rural migrant worker, rural migrant workers school, human capital, social capital