Abstract
ABSTRACT: Drawing upon data from the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS) of 2012 and 2014, this paper uses the panel binary choice model to examine the determinants of the settlement intentions of rural-urban migrants. Results showed that both a sense of belonging and social identity play important roles in determining rural-urban migrants’ settlement decisions. Besides these, wage, education, and health also affect the willingness of migrant workers to settle in a given area. Therefore, to promote urbanization, policy-makers should pay attention to the subjective demands of rural-urban migrants. We suggested that decision- and policy-makers help such migrants improve their social networks and eliminate identity discrimination, so as to encourage their willingness to settle in cities.
Highlights
With the acceleration of urbanization in China, rural migrant workers - the so-called “floating population” - have increasingly constituted a major proportion of new comers in urban areas
By using a panel binary choice model, this study aimed to test the influence of the sense of belonging and social identity on rural-urban migrants’ settlement intentions
The expansion of interpersonal circles helps rural-urban migrants build their social networks in cities, but it can significantly increase their sense of belonging (WANG, 2013; CHEN and LIU, 2016; SHEN and LIU, 2016)
Summary
With the acceleration of urbanization in China, rural migrant workers - the so-called “floating population” - have increasingly constituted a major proportion of new comers in urban areas. According to the 2016 Migrant Workers Detection Survey Report by the National Bureau of Statistics of China, the total number of migrant workers nationwide reached 280 million as of the end of 2016, having increased by 4.24 million over the previous year. They have made significant contribution to China’s economic development and modernization. The government has attached great importance to the challenge facing rural migrant workers and has devised corresponding policies to both increase employment and promoted entrepreneurship amongst migrant workers and effectively safeguard their rights through labor protection laws. Previous studies (ZHU, 2007; ZHU and CHEN, 2010; FAN, 2011) have investigated the relationship between migrants’ sense of belonging and the willingness of rural-urban migrants to settle
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