Training, skill-upgrading and settlement intention of migrants: Evidence from China

Qing, Wang; Ren, Ting; Liu, Ti

doi:10.1177/0042098018798760

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“…Remarkably, few scholars have paid attention to the effect of human capital enhancement in encouraging local livelihoods to alleviate dependence on natural resources around PAs [ 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 ]. As an important method of improving human capital, skill training can fundamentally improve the income of local residents, as has been confirmed by numerous studies [ 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 ]. In the agricultural sector, for example, trained farmers make a modest gain in knowledge and professional skills, leading to reduced pesticide use [ 39 ], mitigation of human-wildlife conflicts [ 40 ], and increases in household income [ 41 ].…”

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Heterogeneous Effects of Skill Training on Rural Livelihoods around Four Biosphere Reserves in China

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The growing contradiction between protection and livelihood is a common challenge for most protected areas in developing countries. Skill training is an important way to increase household income and alleviate the dilemma between conservation and development. However, its effects on household income around protected areas have rarely been explored. This paper aims to evaluate the effect of skill training on the income of households around four Biosphere Reserves in China and explore its mechanism. Based on the information collected from 381 households through face-to-face interviews, this study adopted descriptive analysis and multiple regression to yield consistent results. The results showed that agricultural and off-farm skill training had no impact on the total household income. The results from the mechanism analysis found that participation in off-farm skill training had a significant and positive effect on the total income of the households outside protected areas and participation in agricultural training had a positive effect on agricultural income. The findings indicate that the local government and protected area administration should increase the publicity for skill training, enrich the types training, appropriately supply livelihood support projects that reconcile conservation and development, and strengthen the infrastructure development around protected areas to promote off-farm employment and the circulation and sale of agricultural products. However, the impacts of any associated intensification should be carefully monitored.

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Heterogeneous Effects of Skill Training on Rural Livelihoods around Four Biosphere Reserves in China

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“…Human capital is the reflection of an individual’s ability to integrate into society and affects the degree of social integration through integrating willingness ( Wang et al, 2018 ). Huang et al (2018) found that rural women could increase their income by more than 98% after higher education.…”

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Female career interruption and social integration: An interaction between human capital and new media use

Liu

2022

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Promoting the social integration of various groups provides a significant guarantee for China to achieve high-quality development. However, female workers, as the main force of the service industry, had suffered a greater occupational impact due to COVID-19 and loosened China’s fertility policy in 2021. After female career interruption, the change in women’s social roles and networks has aroused concern about their social integration. However, limited attention had been paid to female career interruption in existing studies about social integration. Therefore, this study developed a theoretical model to explore the relationship between female career interruption and social integration. An empirical test using data from the fourth Chinese Women’s Social Status Survey of Hainan Province was applied to evaluate the hypotheses. The results indicate that there is a significantly negative correlation between female career interruption and social integration. And there is a difference among female career interrupters with different quantiles of social integration. Furthermore, the impact of human capital on the link between female career interruption and social integration depended on the type of new media use. When female career interrupters who use strong learning-oriented new media (such as learning about news, working/business, studying online, and investing/financial management) encounter human capital, the relationship between female career interruption and social integration is minimal. In contrast, this relationship is enhanced when female career interrupters who use strong amusing-oriented new media (such as online consumption, chatting, entertainment, and games) are confronted with human capital. Meanwhile, the results of quantile regression show that the secondary moderating effect of learning-oriented new media use gradually weakens with the rise of the quantile of female social integration. And so does amusing-oriented new media use. However, a moderating effect of human capital alone is not found.

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“…At present, the Chinese government implements a people-oriented urbanization strategy by expanding the supply of security housing in urban areas in order to increase the urbanization rate to 65% by 2025. The determinants of the attraction of migrants are important and have been extensively examined in the literature [ 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 ]. Moreover, a significant issue for the settlement intentions of migrants involves housing conditions and living costs [ 9 , 15 ].…”

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Housing Security and Settlement Intentions of Migrants in Urban China

Wang

Chen

2022

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A huge gap remains in the urbanization rate between China and developed countries, although China has experienced a rapid growth in urbanization rate over the last decade. Critical to the future growth of urbanization is how to increase the settlement intentions of migrants. This study uses land supply for security housing as an exogeneous shock to the supply of security housing in the near future to explore how housing security is associated with intentions to settle down in destination cities of the migrant population. We found that increased land supply for security housing promotes the settlement intentions of migrants. Moreover, housing security is positively associated with permanent settlement intentions, while its relation to temporary settlement intentions is not significant. Lastly, the effect of housing security is larger for households with more housing expenditure. Our results have important theoretical and practical significance for the research on urban development and social welfare.

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Training, skill-upgrading and settlement intention of migrants: Evidence from China

Cited by 13 publications

References 75 publications

Heterogeneous Effects of Skill Training on Rural Livelihoods around Four Biosphere Reserves in China

Heterogeneous Effects of Skill Training on Rural Livelihoods around Four Biosphere Reserves in China

Female career interruption and social integration: An interaction between human capital and new media use

Housing Security and Settlement Intentions of Migrants in Urban China

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