eprintid: 10177979
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creators_name: Li, Peilin
creators_name: Wu, Yufeng
creators_name: Ouyang, Hui
title: Effect of hukou Accessibility on Migrants’ Long Term Settlement Intention in Destination
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B03
divisions: C03
divisions: F26
keywords: Hukou; intervening obstacles; long-term settlement intention; migrants; push-and-pull theory
note: © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
abstract: Migrants’ long-term settlement intention in urban areas has been emphasized by both policy makers and researchers in promoting urbanization and coordinating regional economic development. This study advances the body of knowledge by investigating the effect of what E.S. Lee has proposed as ‘intervening obstacles’ in the ‘push-and-pull’ theory—the difficulty in obtaining hukou in migration destination, on their long-term settlement intention in urban areas. Logistic regressions were applied to examine the effect of urban registered residence system (the hukou system) accessibility on migrants’ long-term settlement intention in urban areas, as well as the determinants of subjective evaluated difficulty in obtaining urban hukou, based on a nation-wide large-scale survey in 46 Chinese cities. Our results suggest that difficulty in obtaining urban hukou does play an important role in shaping country-wide population movement. However, the negative impact of hukou difficulty on migrant workers’ residence intention is not linear, and only when the threshold in obtaining hukou is too high and difficult to achieve will migrant workers choose to return to their hometown in the long term. Moreover, the subjective evaluation of difficulty is further influenced by personal capability and living conditions in cities. This study provides pragmatic implications for administrations from either push side or pull side to improve habitant-related development strategies.
date: 2022-06-02
date_type: published
publisher: MDPI AG
official_url: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14127209
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2092502
doi: 10.3390/su14127209
lyricists_name: Wu, Yufeng
lyricists_id: YWUDX10
actors_name: Wu, Yufeng
actors_id: YWUDX10
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Sustainability
volume: 14
number: 12
article_number: 7209
issn: 2071-1050
citation:        Li, Peilin;    Wu, Yufeng;    Ouyang, Hui;      (2022)    Effect of hukou Accessibility on Migrants’ Long Term Settlement Intention in Destination.                   Sustainability , 14  (12)    , Article 7209.  10.3390/su14127209 <https://doi.org/10.3390/su14127209>.       Green open access   
 
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