Why Does the Government Fail to Improve the Living Conditions of Migrant Workers in <scp>S</scp>hanghai? Reflections on the Policies and the Implementations of Public Rental Housing under Neoliberalism

Shen, Yang

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“…The Chinese State Council further issued "Certain Opinions on Solving the Problems of Migrant Workers" in 2006, which specified the rights of migrant farmworkers, including fair treatment and equality, creation of employment services and vocational training programs, etc. Shen (2015) documented several subsequent guidelines issued by the government aiming to improve the living conditions of migrant workers. With much of the legal barriers removed, the agricultural land and labor transfer markets greatly expanded over the past decade.…”

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Deregulation, technical efficiency and production risk in rice farming: evidence from Zhejiang Province, China

Wang

Etienne

2020

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to evaluate the technical efficiency and production risk in China's rice production and examine the effect of factor market reform on these two agricultural performance metrics.Design/methodology/approachUsing an unbalanced farm-level panel data with 2,193 observations on 329 rice farms from 2004 to 2016, the authors estimate a translog stochastic production frontier model that accounts for both technical inefficiency and production risk. A one-step procedure through the maximum likelihood method that combines the stochastic production frontier, technical inefficiency and production risk functions is used to circumvent the bias problem often found in the conventional two-step model.FindingsEstimation results show that both land and labor market reforms significantly improved the level of technical efficiency over the years, although the effect of land market deregulation is of a much higher magnitude compared to the latter. The land market reform, however, has also increased the risk of production. The authors further find that a higher proportion of hired labor in total labor cost helps lower production risk, while also acting to decrease technical efficiency. Additionally, agricultural subsidies not only increased the output variability but also lowered technical efficiencyOriginality/valueFirst, the authors evaluate the effect of market deregulation on technical efficiency and production risk under a stochastic frontier framework that simultaneously accounts for both production performance metrics, which is important from a statistical point of view. Further, the authors exploit both cross-sectional and time-series variations in a panel setting to more accurately estimate the technical inefficiency scores and production risk for individual farmers, and investigate how the exogenous land and labor market reforms influence these two production performance measures in China's rice farming. This is the first study in the literature to analyze these questions under a panel framework.

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Deregulation, technical efficiency and production risk in rice farming: evidence from Zhejiang Province, China

Wang

Etienne

2020

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“…Based on our ethnographic case study at two retail markets in Shanghai, COVID‐19 business support policies designated for private entrepreneurs, did not benefit rural migrant micro‐entrepreneurs because of an understanding that policies have historically neglected them (Yang, 2015). Getihu believe policies are legitimate but not for me because I am getihu by myself .…”

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Legitimate but “not for me”: The role of validation in migrant entrepreneur understanding of COVID‐19 business support policies in Shanghai

Blalock

Lyu

2021

Growth and Change

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COVID‐19 pandemic destroyed lives and the global economy, and in the wake left businesses struggling to re‐open in urban China. The Chinese party‐state implemented fiscal reforms targeted towards small businesses, however little research has evaluated business’ understanding of policies and implementation, particular to the focus on rural migrant entrepreneurs. Therefore, we conducted an ethnographic case study including in‐depth interviews to determine to what extent rural migrant micro‐entrepreneurs understand and adopt COVID‐19 business support policies at two retail markets in Shanghai amid a pandemic. Applying an inductive grounded theory approach, the data demonstrated participants believe policies are legitimate but not for me because I am getihu by myself. We maintain their understanding is a legacy of hukou and is confirmed through the theory of validation including recognition through agreement with significant others including other entrepreneurs and family; corroboration with life experiences in Shanghai; and resonance of their migration story as self‐sufficient entrepreneurs surviving with their own capabilities. They have a degree of certainty their understanding is fact because it has been repeatedly validated through life experiences of a migrant lacking hukou in Shanghai. The study encourages consideration for the migrant entrepreneur context and has important practical implications for policymakers.

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“…For instance, Shanghai initiated a talent housing programme as early as 2006. Talent with housing difficulties was included in the Public Rental Housing (PRH) scheme in 2010 [24]. By the end of 2020, Shanghai had raised a total of 187,000 units of PRH for talent-housing use.…”

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To Settle Down, or Not? Evaluating the Policy Effects of Talent Housing in Shanghai, China

Lei

Guo

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Housing has become pivotal in attracting and retaining talent in first-tier cities. Although numerous cities are actively promoting the provision of talent housing in China, little is known about the talent’s evaluations of talent housing policies or the effect on their urban settlement intention. This paper aims to investigate whether talent housing alleviates the housing difficulties of talent and its role in retaining talent. A questionnaire was conducted face-to-face in talent housing in Shanghai. Binary logistic regression was employed to analyse the factors significantly contributing to the settlement intentions of the talent. Talent housing was confirmed to alleviate the talent’s housing pressures and further increase their urban settlement intention. The local hukou was determined to be crucial in accelerating the willingness of talent to settle in Shanghai. However, housing affordability (including school district housing) may jeopardise such positive effects. It is crucial to provide more choices of talent housing and increase the coverage of good-quality educational resources. In the long run, more talent can be attracted and retained in the locality under a broader coverage of the talent housing scheme.

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Why Does the Government Fail to Improve the Living Conditions of Migrant Workers in Shanghai? Reflections on the Policies and the Implementations of Public Rental Housing under Neoliberalism

Abstract: How to get affordable housing is the primary concern of many peasant migrants working in

Cited by 24 publications

References 16 publications

Deregulation, technical efficiency and production risk in rice farming: evidence from Zhejiang Province, China

Deregulation, technical efficiency and production risk in rice farming: evidence from Zhejiang Province, China

Legitimate but “not for me”: The role of validation in migrant entrepreneur understanding of COVID‐19 business support policies in Shanghai

To Settle Down, or Not? Evaluating the Policy Effects of Talent Housing in Shanghai, China

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