Where are the migrants from? Inter- vs. intra-provincial rural-urban migration in China

Su, Yu; Tesfazion, Petros; Zhao, Zhong

doi:10.1016/j.chieco.2017.09.004

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“…Engaging in agricultural production and enrollment in health insurance elsewhere indicate ties to rural origins. Since permanent or long-term migrants tend to migrate within the provincial borders [55,56], the proportion of intraprovincial migrants in a household can be important. Households that are split in different locations are less likely to commit to settling down, so a binary variable was used to indicate split households.…”

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Toward Human-Centered Urbanization? Housing Ownership and Access to Social Insurance Among Migrant Households in China

Wen

Wallace

2019

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For the past few years, China's urbanization policy has focused on expanding welfare and affordable housing for rural migrants so as to encourage them to put down roots in the city. The international literature disagrees on the relationship between homeownership and welfare-whether the former is a substitute for or a consequence of the latter. Using multilevel logistic regression on a 2015 nationally representative survey, this paper explores the determinants of housing ownership among China's rural migrant households in their city of residence, focusing particularly on access to urban social insurance. The results show that institutional ties to the city such as enrollment in local pensions and health insurance are associated with higher likelihood of homeownership. This paper argues that policy interventions should target the social security system, as rural migrants are likely unwilling or unable to invest in urban housing due to the increased risk and precarity they typically experience. The findings also suggest that to make urbanization more sustainable, the government should aim at making cities more family-friendly, expanding alternatives to employment-based social insurance schemes, and targeting efforts on interior cities in migrant-sourcing provinces that pose fewer barriers to permanent settlement.

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Toward Human-Centered Urbanization? Housing Ownership and Access to Social Insurance Among Migrant Households in China

Wen

Wallace

2019

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“…With the frequent flow of population in the regions, it is necessary to study the impact of population mobility on urbanization convergence. Su et al (2018) and Chen et al (2019) believed that population mobility has a significant impact on the structure and trends of regional differences. Population mobility increases inter-regional development differences and aggravates the phenomenon of "border effect".…”

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Does Population Mobility Contribute to Urbanization Convergence? Empirical Evidence from Three Major Urban Agglomerations in China

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Population mobility accelerates urbanization convergence and mitigates the negative impact of the spatial agglomeration effect on urbanization convergence, which is the most important conclusion in this paper. Taking 38 cities in China’s three urban agglomerations (the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, and the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region) from 2005 to 2016 as research subjects, the study first shows that there is a large gap in the level of urbanization between the three major urban agglomerations, but the gap has been constantly narrowed and presents a trend of absolute convergence and conditional convergence. Furthermore, without adding a population mobility variable, the combination of the diffusion effect of high-urbanization cities and the high growth rate of low-urbanization cities causes the inter-regional urbanization level to be continuously convergent in the Yangtze River Delta region; however, the combination of the agglomeration effect of high-urbanization cities and the high growth rate of low-urbanization cities causes the inter-regional urbanization to be divergent in the Pearl River Delta and the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region. Under the influence of population mobility, the “catch-up” effect in low-urbanization regions is greater than the agglomeration effect in high-urbanization regions, which promotes the continuous convergence of inter-regional urbanization.

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“…Studies have also suggested negative health well-being consequences from rural-to-urban migration for migrants themselves [31], and to the elderly and children left behind in the rural areas [32,33]. The decision and determinants of rural-to-urban migration also concern many scholars [34,35]. Although previous research has generated an impressive body of work, most of the existing studies explore the social issues that are caused by RUMs.…”

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Analyzing the Decoupling between Rural-to-Urban Migrants and Urban Land Expansion in Hubei Province, China

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Rapid urbanization in China has caused a large number of rural-to-urban migrants (RUMs) and rapid urban land expansion (ULE). Understanding the relationship between RUMs and ULE has important implications for urban sustainable development. This study explored the spatial patterns of RUMs and ULE in Hubei Province from 2009 to 2014, and analyzed the relationship between the two using a decoupling model. The results show that: (1) a large proportion of the rural population migrated to urban areas in Hubei Province from 2009 to 2014, and the distribution of RUMs was uneven: developed areas attracted more RUMs than undeveloped regions; (2) the urban land in Hubei Province increased rapidly from 2009 to 2014, and the urban land use in Hubei Province was extensive and inefficient; (3) the decoupling types between RUMs and ULE in Hubei Province were dominated by expansive negative and weak decoupling; (4) according to the changes in per capita urban land area and decoupling types, the coordination relationship between RUMs and ULE in Hubei Province was divided into eight types, and while the relationship between RUMs and ULE in most areas were coordinated and beneficial to urban land intensive use, the rest were uncoordinated. Finally, reasonable implications for urban sustainable development and new land use policy were put forward.

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Where are the migrants from? Inter- vs. intra-provincial rural-urban migration in China

Cited by 136 publications

References 34 publications

Toward Human-Centered Urbanization? Housing Ownership and Access to Social Insurance Among Migrant Households in China

Toward Human-Centered Urbanization? Housing Ownership and Access to Social Insurance Among Migrant Households in China

Does Population Mobility Contribute to Urbanization Convergence? Empirical Evidence from Three Major Urban Agglomerations in China

Analyzing the Decoupling between Rural-to-Urban Migrants and Urban Land Expansion in Hubei Province, China

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