关键词: 返乡农民工, 技能资本, 协整理论, 技能收入

Abstract: Migrant rural workers who have returned home have brought about unemployment and instability. This paper collected the data of labor-export provinces such as Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Henan and Anhui and researched the role of skill capital for increasing income to those return-home migrant rural workers. We apply the classic return theory, Cointegration theory, Granger causality test and impulse response function and finally draw conclusions. In the short term, years of education have no impact on the income of return-home migrant rural worker, while the expenditures for studying skills have significant influence. Government can indirectly affect the pattern of skills investment by increasing the income of return-home migrant rural workers.

Key words: Return-home Migrant Rural Workers, Skill Capital, Cointegration Theory, Skill Income