Shortage Of Migrant Workers In Spring: Competition Between Chinese And Western Labor Forces

"If one day, I am old, I will stay in this spring."

In 2011 spring festival gala, the peasant workers' combination of "rising sun masculine" impressed the whole nation with a sincere and simple spring.

Their songs sang the contemporary peasants.

Today, migrant workers are no longer an unknown word, which has been linked to urban life and China.

In the Midwest

Chengdu.

Jinjiang District manpower

Chongqing.

Many enterprises in the North train station, the vegetable garden dam station, Chen Jiaping long-distance bus station, Chaotianmen long-distance bus station and other places, through the banners, leaflets, on-site consultation and other publicity, hope that the migrant workers who return to the Spring Festival can stay in Chongqing after the Spring Festival this year.

More agencies sent a letter of condolence, promising "Chongqing West Yongxin opportunity", one hundred thousand electronic good post.

There are not only sufficient jobs, income protection, public rental housing, children's enrolment and other policy environment, but also can take care of the elderly and children at close range, avoid the care of relatives and travel, and get a sense of belonging. "

Wuhan.

A spring breeze card containing Wuhan's recruitment information and job reminders is distributed to migrant workers who are waiting at the front square of Wuchang railway station.

The card introduces that from February 9th to March 11th, Wuhan will hold 117 free recruitment fairs, and more than 8000 enterprises will provide 240 thousand jobs.

It is understood that about seven of these posts have become local jobs in Wuhan, and more than 300 coastal enterprises have taken over 80 thousand jobs.

Active digging in the East

In contrast with the central and western regions actively retaining the townships, the eastern cities are equally "eager for the best" for migrant workers.

Shanghai.

Nearly 400 long-distance buses went to Anhui, Jiangsu, Henan, Hubei and other places to return to the "family gate".

Nanjing.

Factories gathered in Suzhou high tech (600736) area on both sides of the golden Maple Road, covered with banners, written all kinds of "year-round Recruitment" words.

The railway station and the car station have a warm "station".

"The Quan Quan woman worker is 17~35 years old, receives 100 yuan to return 300 yuan; the Asahi electric appliance male and female 16~35 year old male does not receive 150 yuan, the female does not receive 200 yuan; the number 10 recruitment worker asks the reserve personnel, asks the boss to support many, thank you!"

This reporter learned that, due to the shortage of recruiting workers, the "business mode" of the labor intermediary companies has come to a great reversal. The so-called "collection" in the short message is the labor agency's recommendation to the other larger intermediary companies or manufacturers to pay the workers, and the labor agency to collect the workers again. Now, they have to avoid or receive less, or even "spend money on people", or "return".

Before the labor company "bribed" the personnel manager of the enterprise, the phenomenon immediately disappeared.

Guangdong.

Dongguan Shipai town related personage introduction, the town government has organized many enterprises to go to Guangxi, Hunan and other places, open up talent channel, Shipai town and Yunan, Renhua and other places to establish friendly town relationship.

In Shaoguan, the local government did a good job of collecting and sorting the information of enterprises' vacancies before the Spring Festival, and printed the local enterprises' empty information on the cards, distributing them in more crowded bus stations, railway stations, walking streets, large supermarkets and other places. At the same time, during the Spring Festival, organization of the labor shortage enterprises went to the special recruitment fairs in towns, villages and other places where there were more migrant workers leaving their hometown.

Employment gap and wage convergence

According to statistics, the reserve force of migrant workers has decreased by about 6000000 per year compared with the previous peak, and almost 20 million less in three years (the second issue of Xinhua digest in 2011, the causes of "shortage of migrant workers", coping and the prospect of labor market institutional change).

In 2009, the National Bureau of statistics showed that the monthly income of migrant workers in the eastern region was 1455 yuan, 1389 yuan in the central region and 1382 yuan in the western region.

The eastern region is only 5% higher than the western region, and 5 years ago the eastern region was 15% higher than the western region.

At the same time, with the gradual improvement of investment conditions in central and western regions, many labor intensive enterprises have gradually pferred to the central and western regions, thus increasing the demand for employment in the central and western regions.

Taking Chengdu and Chongqing as an example, the two countries attracted foreign investment of 6 billion 410 million US dollars and US $6 billion 300 million last year.

Guo Xiaoming, vice president of the Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences, conducted a survey in March 2010 on the two most representative labor export places in Suining and Jintang counties in Sichuan. The results showed that by the end of 2009, the employment gap of 21 enterprises in Suining was about 20%. Up to March 5, 2010, the employment gap of the Suining electronic industrial park has reached 30%, and the number of workers lacking in work is 3000.

In 2010, there were 12 thousand new jobs in Jintang, and the pressure of employment was relatively large. Among them, the employment gap of some shoemaking enterprises in Jintang county was 30%.

In the face of home employment opportunities, migrant workers exactly how to choose?

Before the Spring Festival, the Bureau of human resources of Gao Gao town in Dongguan conducted a sample survey of the employees returning home and staying in the Spring Festival during the Spring Festival. The results showed that 4 enterprises sampled 2104 employees, accounting for 34% of the total during the Spring Festival and 66% of their returning home.

Among the employees returning home, the planned return to the original enterprises accounted for 84.76% of the total, and 4.37% of those who planned to return to work were 10.87%; those who did not return to Dongguan accounted for 10.87%.

This result partly reflects that the eastern cities are still the main areas for migrant workers to go out for employment, but in the future, it will be a trend worthy of observation.