Li Baoxi, Huang Jing, Zhang Yuan
School of Business, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062, China.
Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Apr;30(16):46587-46603. doi: 10.1007/s11356-023-25149-8. Epub 2023 Jan 31.
This paper investigates the impacts of air pollution on immigrants' willingness to settle in China. We construct a theoretical model that discusses how air pollution impacts immigrants' willingness to return home and move to other cities and illustrates how air pollution decreases the settlement intention of immigrants. The empirical results show that urban air pollution decreases immigrants' settlement intention. Robustness checks using multi-methods and multi-measures of settlement intention and air pollution support this conclusion. Air pollution has heterogeneous impacts on immigrants' settlement intentions. From the individual level, air pollution decreases the settlement intention for immigrants with 30-60 years old, middle-income migrants, and rural migrants. From the city level, air pollution decreases the settlement intention of immigrants in the eastern region, developed cities, and cities with high and low air pollution.
本文研究了空气污染对移民在中国定居意愿的影响。我们构建了一个理论模型，探讨空气污染如何影响移民回国和迁往其他城市的意愿，并阐明空气污染如何降低移民的定居意愿。实证结果表明，城市空气污染会降低移民的定居意愿。使用多种方法和多种定居意愿及空气污染衡量指标进行的稳健性检验支持了这一结论。空气污染对移民的定居意愿有不同的影响。从个体层面来看，空气污染降低了30至60岁移民、中等收入移民和农村移民的定居意愿。从城市层面来看，空气污染降低了东部地区、发达城市以及空气污染程度高和低的城市中移民的定居意愿。
