Abstract:

The Urban-Rural Segmentation is paid attention because it leads to the negative economic efficiency. This paper designed an index measuring the Urban-Rural Segmentation, and used Zhejiang’s data of China Urban-Household Surveys to measure the degrees of Urban-Rural Segmentation. The results show that, from the income point of view, the segmentation degree of relatively good sub-markets is higher than that of comparatively bad sub-markets and, from the employment opportunities point of view, the segmentation degree of relatively good sub-markets is lower than that of comparatively bad sub-markets. So the government should pay more attention to the problem of equal pay for equal work in bad sub-markets and implement the public policy to solve the unequal issue of employment opportunities in good sub-markets with different Hukou status.

Key words: Labor Market, Urban-Rural Segmentation, Index of Segmentations, Segmentation Characteristics