Abstract
This meta-analysis summarizes the research findings of many local and international experts and constructs a comprehensive employment quality evaluation system based on factors including monthly salary, working hours, job stability, career reputation, social security, labor rights, development prospective, worker satisfaction and more. Binary Logistic Regression was used to analyze and discuss new generation migrant workers’ settlement intention, both as a whole and for different genders. Analysis suggests there are significant gender differences when it comes to settlement intention. Education level, social circle, skill development, weekly working hours and colleague relationship all have profound impact on new generation female migrant workers’ settlement intention. On the other hand, only career type and overall job satisfaction show significant influence over male migrant workers’ decision. It has to be noted that overall job satisfaction is an integrative indicator. Therefore, this paper suggests that in order to study the relationship between employment and settlement intention, one should start from analyzing comprehensive employment quality indicators with special attention paid to gender differences.
Highlights
New generation migrant workers are defined as people who were born after 1980, currently employed in the city, but still hold the rural census registers
Using new generation migrant workers as research subjects, we further conduct layered studies based on different genders
Based on research goals and the discussions above, we propose the following basic research hypotheses: Improvement in new generation migrant workers’ employment quality can increase their settlement intention
Summary
New generation migrant workers are defined as people who were born after 1980, currently employed in the city, but still hold the rural census registers. Since 2018, new generation migrant workers had made up more than half of the total migrant worker population. The future settlement of new generation migrant workers is a critical aspect of accelerating urbanization progress as well as improving the extent and quality of urbanization of our nation. Employment, as the basis to migrant workers’ city lives, has definitive links to settlement intention. Employment quality of migrant workers is a vital issue that affects migrant workers’ self-development, rural development, city building, national progress as well as social stability. Due to recent changes in the demand and supply structure, migrant workers started to demand more than fulfilling their most basic needs, which drew attention to the quality of employment of migrant workers. A study on settlement intention needs to take into consideration many aspects of employment quality
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