Economic linkages between urban and rural regions – what’s in it for the rural?
基于工资、生活成本和跨区域通勤模型，研究了城乡经济相互依赖关系，发现农村能否受益取决于其能否吸引并留住高技能工人的人力与金融资本。
Urban–rural interdependences are modelled based on wages, cost of living, and interregional migration and commuting. Rural-to-urban commuting generates a scenario where the relative level of urban wages can continue to outperform rural wages without residential migration and increased costs of living acting as equilibrating forces. The spread of urban workers could be detrimental for rural regions without clear mechanisms for their human and financial capital to penetrate local economies. Therefore, ‘what’s in it for the rural?’ depends upon the ability of rural regions to capture the value attached to highly mobile, skilled workers choosing to live in the rural region.