Influences on rural migrant workers' selection of employment location in the mountainous and upland areas of Sichuan, China

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	Influences on rural migrant workers' selection of employment location in the mountainous and upland areas of Sichuan, China
	Liu, Shaoquan1,2 ; Xie, Fangting1,2,3 ; Zhang, Haiqin4 ; Guo, Shili1,2,3
刊名	JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES
	2014
卷号	33 页码:71-81
关键词	Mountainous and upland area Off-farm employment Location selection Migrants
ISSN号	0743-0167
通讯作者	Shaoquan Liu
英文摘要	This study examines the current employment location selection of rural migrant workers in mountainous and upland areas of Sichuan, China. The analysis employs both representative survey data of 400 households and geographical data calculated using a 30 m Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and Geographic Information System (GIS). A binary and multinomial logistic regression model is used to analyse the influences on employment location selection of rural migrant workers, where the factors considered include personal, household, and community characteristics as well as natural and employment environments. Dividing off-farm employment locations into five categories, we find that 14.98% of rural migrant workers migrated to their home village; 10.98% migrated out of their home village but remained in their home town; 12.81% migrated out of their home town but remained within their home county; 15.47% migrated out of their home county but remained within their home province; and 45.76% migrated out of their home province. Employment location selection of rural migrant workers is found to be significantly influenced by the travel time required to reach a town, the cultivated land area per capita of a worker's household, the worker's age, whether an employer provides housing or meals, and the RDLS (relief degree of land surface) of the worker's home village. Gender is found to affect the likelihood of labourers taking off-farm employment in their home villages but does not appear to influence movement to other migrant locations. A multinomial regression approach is undertaken to analyse rural out-migration to the five migrant locations considered, an approach that reveals considerable heterogeneity that is concealed by the dichotomous approach employed in most previous studies. The study thus contributes to our understanding of rural out-migration in mountainous and upland areas. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
WOS标题词	Social Sciences
类目[WOS]	Planning & Development
研究领域[WOS]	Public Administration
关键词[WOS]	LABOR MIGRATION ; URBAN MIGRATION ; INEQUALITY ; URBANIZATION ; DETERMINANTS ; LAND
收录类别	SSCI
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000331510800007
公开日期	2014-10-31
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.imde.ac.cn/handle/131551/7380]
专题	成都山地灾害与环境研究所_山区发展研究中心
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Mt Hazards & Environm, Chengdu 610041, Peoples R China 2.Minist Water Conservancy & Power, Chengdu 610041, Peoples R China 3.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 4.Sichuan Inst Tourism Planning & Design, Chengdu 610051, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Liu, Shaoquan,Xie, Fangting,Zhang, Haiqin,et al. Influences on rural migrant workers' selection of employment location in the mountainous and upland areas of Sichuan, China[J]. JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES,2014,33:71-81.
APA	Liu, Shaoquan,Xie, Fangting,Zhang, Haiqin,&Guo, Shili.(2014).Influences on rural migrant workers' selection of employment location in the mountainous and upland areas of Sichuan, China.JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES,33,71-81.
MLA	Liu, Shaoquan,et al."Influences on rural migrant workers' selection of employment location in the mountainous and upland areas of Sichuan, China".JOURNAL OF RURAL STUDIES 33(2014):71-81.