China's Urban Migrants-The Public Policy Challenge

Wong, Linda

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“…Dodd-McHue & Wright, 1996). In the specific case of off farm migrants there is evidence that females are more likely than males to return to the hometown to get married and look after children who remained behind (Wong, 1994). While existing studies are far from unanimous, several studies have found that women do report higher levels of turnover intention and have higher actual turnover (see the studies referenced in Stewart et al, 2007).…”

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Determinants of turnover intentions among Chinese off farm migrants

Smyth¹,

Zhai

Li³

2008

Econ Change Restruct

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This study examines the determinants of turnover intentions of off farm migrant workers, using data collected from China's Jiangsu Province. Turnover intention is posited to be a function of demographic/human capital characteristics, job characteristics and job satisfaction. We find that higher levels of education have a positive effect on reported turnover intentions, while higher income and job satisfaction have a negative effect on turnover intentions. As turnover intentions represent a good proxy for actual turnover, the results can be viewed as providing reliable predictors of job mobility among off farm migrant workers at a time when there is a growing shortage of such workers in China's coastal provinces.

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Section: Empirical Specification and Expected Signsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Determinants of turnover intentions among Chinese off farm migrants

Smyth¹,

Zhai

Li³

2008

Econ Change Restruct

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“…There is mounting evidence that not all recently arrived migrants find employment. A marginalized sector is sprouting up in Chinese cities that imperils social stability (Wong, 1994;Zhang, 1995), a trend also evident in other Asian cities (Yeung, 1996). Asian planners are coping with multi-ethnic, segregated cities, which means managing housing and language policies in the Asian cities that are driving the "new" global economy of the 1990s (Laquian, 1996).…”

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confidence: 97%

Urban Social Policy in Poor Countries: Theoretical and Methodological Directions

Scarpaci¹

1998

Urban Geography

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This review essay is the third of three about comparative urban social policy in poor nations. It is selective in scope and confined to policy in the realms of health, education, and housing. The paper aims to identify key literatures that might interest urbanists in general, and urban geographers, planners, and policy analysts in particular. The first essay outlined emerging issues in the social policy circles of poor countries (Scarpaci, 1993). A second paper that identified strategies and trends in the Third World metropolis followed . This final review aims to bring some closure to this series by identifying novel approaches to method and theory that appeared in the literature of the mid-1990s. DECENTRALIZATION AND THE LOCAL STATE: RESOURCES FOR SOCIAL SERVICESThe municipalities of low-and middle-income countries of the developing realm have been drawn into the decentralization fervor of the 1990s. While centralized governments instigated important centripetal forces in uniting newly decolonized states in the 19th and 262 URBAN SOCIAL POLICY IN POOR COUNTRIES 263 20th centuries, contemporary urbanization brings new salience to municipal governments. Most Latin American, African, and Asian metropolitan areas depend on national expenditures and parliamentary approval to fill local coffers. Repeating the states' rights debate that raged in the United States in the 1980s, international and multilateral lending agencies encourage developing nations to both privatize and decentralize social programs. A conundrum results when metropolitan governments cannot legally raise revenues through taxation or by floating bonds without first securing approval from the national government (Scarpaci and Irarrázaval, 1994). One public-opinion poll in Chile found that 62% of those interviewed believed that municipal governments-the "close visible face" of the state apparatus-were the institutions best able to solve local problems. Unfortunately, municipal governments in Chile manage budgets only 10% the size of the national budget, creating tensions among layers of government (Irarrázaval, 1996). Latin American social unrest likely has less to do with matters of governability than reactions to governance systems. As Rodriguez and Winchester (1996) show, too much attention by Latin American municipal governments in attracting manufacturing employment (longterm goals) in the "globalization" frenzy may obfuscate the peoples' needs for health care, education, and housing (short-term policy goals). While the worst of the debt crisis in Latin America may be over, their governments are loath to "[tell] that to the poor in most cities of Latin America" (Gilbert, 1995, p. 323).

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“…At present in urban China, it appears that residents have both little confidence in formal guardians and see informal guardians as largely irrelevant. This interpretation may point to the need for alternative policing strategies in urban China, such as formal community policing strategies (e.g., Wong 1994).…”

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Perceptions of Public Security in Post-reform Urban China: A Routine Activity Analysis

Nielsen

Smyth

2009

Asian Criminology

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This paper investigates the personal and environmental determinants of public security perceptions across 32 Chinese cities within the risk/opportunity framework of Cohen and Felson's (American Sociological Review 44:588-608, 1979) routine activity theory. Structural path analysis reveals that public security perceptions in China are informed by similar personal and environment characteristics to those reported as important in extant research within Western contexts. However, the frequently reported influence of gender on public security perceptions in the West does not appear to extend to post-reform urban China. The results provide support for the routine activity theory in terms of extending our understanding of the factors that influence perceptions of public security to a non-Western context.

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China's Urban Migrants-The Public Policy Challenge

Cited by 39 publications

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Determinants of turnover intentions among Chinese off farm migrants

Determinants of turnover intentions among Chinese off farm migrants

Urban Social Policy in Poor Countries: Theoretical and Methodological Directions

Perceptions of Public Security in Post-reform Urban China: A Routine Activity Analysis

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