How Does Labor Mobility Affect Common Prosperity?—An Empirical Study Based on a Panel of Chinese Cities

Xinhua Yang, Qicheng Li, Shuai Luo () and Qi Li
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Xinhua Yang: School of Economics, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China
Qicheng Li: School of Economics, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China
Shuai Luo: School of Economics, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China
Qi Li: School of Economics, Guangdong Ocean University, Zhanjiang 524088, China

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 8, 1-21

Abstract: Common prosperity is an essential requirement of socialism and an important feature of China’s modernization. Based on panel data from 159 prefecture-level cities in China between 2010 and 2019, combined with a fixed-effects model, mediation regression model, and spatial Durbin model, this study empirically examines the impact and mechanism of labor mobility on common prosperity. The study found that (1) labor mobility can significantly promote the realization of common prosperity, and this conclusion is robust. (2) Labor mobility has a significant mediating effect on the improvement in the common prosperity level by promoting economic growth spillovers and return effects. (3) The impact of labor mobility on common prosperity is heterogeneous, with regions with lower mobility costs and more developed economies showing stronger promotion effects. Based on the research findings, policy recommendations include breaking down barriers to mobility, protecting the rights of farmers, and establishing regional cooperation mechanisms.

Keywords: common wealth; labor mobility; industrial structure optimization; industrial agglomeration; threshold effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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