School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China.
School of Management, Chinese Academy of Housing and Real Estate, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Feb 5;20(4):2817. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20042817.
Using data from the China Migrants Dynamic Survey, this paper provides new evidence on the impact of rural land transfer on urban settlement intentions of rural migrants. There was a rural land system reform in rural China that provided increased compensation for rural land expropriation and allowed the transaction of collective construction land for business purposes. We determine an increase in urban settlement intentions of rural migrants following the reform as an exogenous change in rural land transfer of rural migrants. We examine two mechanisms that may explain how the reform increased the settlement intentions of rural migrants, and our empirical evidence suggests that the reform increased social integration and reduced rural place attachment of rural migrants. Furthermore, we determine variations in the effect of the reform across migrants of various ages, social security benefits, and migration distances. Overall, this study extends the implications of the market-oriented rural land reform to sustainable and inclusive urbanization and highlights the role of social integration and rural place attachment in migration decisions.
利用《中国流动人口动态监测调查》的数据，本文提供了农村土地流转对农村流动人口城市定居意愿影响的新证据。中国农村进行了农村土地制度改革，提高了农村土地征收补偿标准，允许集体建设用地用于商业用途。我们将农村流动人口农村土地流转的增加视为农村土地流转的外生变化，确定了农村流动人口城市定居意愿的增加。我们考察了两种可能的机制来解释改革如何增加农村流动人口的定居意愿，我们的实证证据表明，改革增加了农村流动人口的社会融合，降低了他们对农村的归属感。此外，我们还确定了改革对不同年龄、社会保障福利和迁移距离的流动人口的影响存在差异。总的来说，这项研究将面向市场的农村土地改革的意义扩展到可持续和包容性的城市化，并强调了社会融合和农村归属感在移民决策中的作用。
