Where your heart belongs to shapes how you feel about yourself: Migration, social comparison and subjective well‐being in China

Liu, Ye; Pan, Zhuolin; Liu, Yuqi; Chen, Hongsheng; Li, Zhigang

doi:10.1002/psp.2336

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“…To promote urbanization and eliminate the negative effect produced by the hukou system, hukou reform has been implemented in China (Liu, Pan, Liu, Chen, & Li, 2020). In 2014, the government published Opinions of the State Council on Further Promotion of Reform of the Household Registration System.…”

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Administrative level, city tier, and air quality: contextual determinants of hukou conversion for migrants in China

2021

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Hukou reform and relevant policies are being implemented in current China, but the response of migrants to hukou conversion in destinations falls short of expectation. It is significant to understand how contextual factors in destination cities affect migrants’ willingness of hukou conversion. Considering administrative dimension, socio-economic dimension, and environmental dimension, this study focuses on migrants with settlement intention and examines the impact of administrative level, city tier, and air quality on their willingness of hukou conversion, using questionnaire data collected in 334 cities in 2017. It is found that migrants with settlement intention have a strong incentive to obtain local hukou in destination cities with high administrative levels and city tiers in the northeast, east, and middle China. This effect is increasingly significant for destinations from southwest to northeast China. While in cities with lower city tiers, migrants with settlement intention are less willing to obtain local hukou in the destination. Air quality has a limited impact on migrants’ willingness of hukou conversion. But the role of air quality varies among different regions. These findings support that both environmental protection and economic development are important to promote urbanization in China.

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Administrative level, city tier, and air quality: contextual determinants of hukou conversion for migrants in China

2021

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“…Second, since own‐account migrant workers are less likely to own houses in cities, government policymaking needs to guarantee the security of housing by making it more widely available or ensuring such migrants are eligible. Such security can improve their perceived citizenship (Lin et al, 2021; Y. Liu et al, 2020).…”

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Tracking the role of self‐employment on perceptions of citizenship: Evidence from urban migrant workers in China

Wang

2022

Population Space and Place

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“…Homeowner status is an indicator of one’s financial resources that reflect one’s social status. A high socioeconomic status or a much peer-admired sociometric status may make one happy [ 28 , 29 ].…”

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How does owning commercial housing affect the subjective well-being of rural-urban migrants?——The mediating effect of housing assets and the moderating effect of debt

Lou

Qiao

2023

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Houses mean a lot to Chinese people, and in the context of the urban-rural dualist system, town housing has a special significance for rural-urban migrants. Based on the 2017 China Household Finance Survey(CHFS) data, this study uses the Ordered Logit (OLogit) model to empirically test the effect of owning commercial housing on the subjective well-being(SWB) of rural-urban migrants, and through the mediating effect and moderating effect to conduct an in-depth investigation into the intrinsic effect mechanism and further explains the relationship between the two and the current residential location of their family. The results of the study show that: (1) Owning commercial housing can significantly enhances the subjective well-being(SWB) of rural-urban migrants, and the findings remain robust after using alternative model, adjusting the sample size, correcting for sample selectivity bias using propensity score matching(PSM), and controlling for potential endogeneity bias combining instrumental variables and conditional mixed process(CMP); (2) The effect of owning commercial housing on the subjective well-being(SWB) of the first generation rural-urban migrants, rural-urban migrants in the eastern and central regions, and those who obtained housing before the rapid rise in house prices is more pronounced; (3) Commercial housing acts on the subjective well-being(SWB) of rural-urban migrants through the mediating effect of housing assets, and there is some regional variation in the mediating effect of housing assets. At the same time, the household debt acts as a positive moderator between commercial housing and the subjective well-being(SWB) of rural-urban migrants; (4) Even with commercial housing, rural-urban migrants whose families are currently living in rural areas still have a stronger sense of subjective well-being (SWB).

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Where your heart belongs to shapes how you feel about yourself: Migration, social comparison and subjective well‐being in China

Cited by 17 publications

References 86 publications

Administrative level, city tier, and air quality: contextual determinants of hukou conversion for migrants in China

Administrative level, city tier, and air quality: contextual determinants of hukou conversion for migrants in China

Tracking the role of self‐employment on perceptions of citizenship: Evidence from urban migrant workers in China

How does owning commercial housing affect the subjective well-being of rural-urban migrants?——The mediating effect of housing assets and the moderating effect of debt

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