Toward Job or Amenity?: Evaluating the Locational Choice of Internal Migrants in China

Su, Yu; Hua, Yue; Liang, Xiaofeng

doi:10.1177/0160017619863476

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“…on migration have been well documented [25][26][27]. More recent research has shown that factors such as climate, temperature, and ambient air quality can also significantly affect migrants' decisions [28][29][30].…”

Section: Literaturementioning

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How Does an Environmental Amenity Attract Voluntary Migrants? Evidence from Ambient Air Quality in China

2021

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Recent studies have shown that air quality is an important amenity for population relocation in China. However, much of Chinese internal migration occurs due to non-discretionary reasons, such as government policies, family considerations, and military personnel reassignments. As such, estimates of the impact of environmental amenities on migration that do not control for migration reasons may be biased. Using the 2015 China Migrants Dynamic Survey, this paper estimates the impact of ambient air pollution on voluntary migration to other provinces for work. We find that more polluted days (air quality index (AQI) >150) at the original residence leads to a significant increase in labor out-migration to a province with better air quality, providing evidence of the current migration trend leading to declining populations in China’s megacities. Our findings indicate that environmental migration is more favored among households that are less educated, are older, work overtime, and have lower income, suggesting that environmental migration may result from environmental health inequalities in socially disadvantaged families.

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How Does an Environmental Amenity Attract Voluntary Migrants? Evidence from Ambient Air Quality in China

2021

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“…A few studies have focused on the role of city amenities in determining the migration behavior and intentions. In particular, on the debate of job opportunities versus urban amenities in determining the locational choice, Su et al (2019) employed a conditional logit model on China's internal migrants and found out urban amenities are more crucial [29]. Shao and Chen (2014) found that a good health care environment in the region is conducive to ensure and improve the labor output [30], which is an important guarantee variable for overseas high-level young returned talents to fulfill their life demands.…”

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Location Choice of Overseas High-Level Young Returned Talents in China

2020

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International talent’s mobility has increased over the last decade, especially in the wake of globalization and knowledge economy. China no longer exclusively shows an asymmetrical flow to developed countries, but it often turns out to be the most desirable destination of brain circulation for some overseas high-level young returned talents. In this context, based on the data obtained from the “Thousand Youth Talents Plan” (2011–2016) publicized by the Central Millennium Plan Office, the methods of the Moran’s I index, the Getis-Ord Gi* index, and the Poisson regression model are adopted in this study to analyze the location choice of overseas high-level young returned talents in China and its driving factors. The spatial configuration shows up that the United States is the most important origin overseas and China’s municipalities or provincial capitals are the most remarkable destinations. Moreover, the analysis reveals the distribution by academic majors is uneven, which may be caused by knowledge priority and legacies of China’s Soviet-style innovation system. The main analysis is extended with the Poisson regression model to estimate the significance of the influence factors. The empirical results show that the factors in order of importance are academic opportunity, urban amenity, and place attachment. Concretely, the most important factors for location choice of overseas high-level young returned talents, namely research and development (R&D) investment, internal convenience and hierarchy level in science and technology (S&T) system, external accessibility, transportation accessibility, university endowment, and health care are the substantial secondary factors, while place-oriented talent agglomeration and prior alumni connection play a minor role.

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“…As big cities are often accompanied by higher living costs and inevitable “urban disease”, some second-tier cities might tend to be more attractive for young populations. Hence, attractiveness of current cities is not driven by jobs or economics only, factors concerning the direction of population movement are playing increasingly important roles in defining the attractiveness of a city [ 19 – 21 ].…”

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Understanding China’s urban system evolution from web search index data

Guo

Zhang

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EPJ Data Sci.

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The spatial inequilibrium phenomenon is apparent during China’s rapid urbanization in the past four decades. As the fertility rate decreases and the population ages, this phenomenon will become more critical. To accurately forecast the future economic development of China, it is necessary to quantify the attractiveness of individual cities. This study introduces web search data to quantify the attractiveness of cities with a fine spatial scale (prefecture-level city) and relatively long-term span (nine years). Results confirm that the estimated city attractiveness can unravel a city’s capability to attract labor force, and suggest that tourism and health care functions of a city have a positive effect to the city’s attractiveness. Additionally, China’s north-south gap in economic development has been widened in the past decade, and 11 cities with nationwide influence have prosperous development potential. This study provides a new lens for predicting China’s economic development, as well as its spatial patterns.

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Toward Job or Amenity?: Evaluating the Locational Choice of Internal Migrants in China

Cited by 33 publications

References 56 publications

How Does an Environmental Amenity Attract Voluntary Migrants? Evidence from Ambient Air Quality in China

How Does an Environmental Amenity Attract Voluntary Migrants? Evidence from Ambient Air Quality in China

Location Choice of Overseas High-Level Young Returned Talents in China

Understanding China’s urban system evolution from web search index data

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