区域经济学regionaleconomicdevelopment第七章(编辑修改稿)

区域经济学regionaleconomicdevelopment第七章(编辑修改稿)内容摘要：

gs to stay as they are. There is also another consideration. The present system gives the betteroff regions access to a cheaper source of labour to supplement their local labour force. Part of this es from the fact that migration under the present hukou system is typically not permanent for many workers, ., they are itinerant workers. Changing the hukou rules to make migration easier will change this. Itinerant workers are typically willing to work for lower wages than resident workers. So relaxing the hukou rules to allow for more permanent migration will increase production costs for firms in the more advanced regions. Chen and Groenewold develop a simulation model to examine the effects of various government policies on regional ine differences. The details of the model will not be reviewed here. Basically it is a two region model that assumes a coastal region and an interior region. The coastal region is characterized as predominately manufacturing based and the interior region as primarily agriculture based. Agriculture here is used to denote all primary industries, such as farming, fishing, mining, forestry, etc. Looking at their results, they find the following: 1. An increase in interior government provided consumption does not reduce the ine gap in either the short run or the long run. The gap actually worsens as ine per capita rises slightly in the coastal region and falls in the interior region. This is primarily because they assume that the government budget must be balanced, so the increase in consumption spending is at the expense of infrastructure spending and the negative consequences of the latter outweigh the stimulus effects of the former. 2. An increase in interior government infrastructure spending reduces the gap by increasing per capita ine in the interior region and reducing。