Endowment,Reason And Social Interaction

The paper reviews the theories about Chinese labor migrants obtaining urban households,including resources endowment theory,rational choice theory and social exchange theory.On this basis,this paper comes up with a comprehensive theory perspective to analyze the labor migrants obtaining urban households,and based on the 2014's China Labor-force Dynamic Survey,this paper provides an empirical investigation into the three theories about labor migrants' register entering town willingness and its influencing factors.The empirical analysis shows that the migration willingness of labor migrants' households is affected by the three mechanisms.Firstly,source endowments,such as education and health,are negatively related to the willingness of households.Education level of labor migrants and the willingness to get urban households will be negatively correlated,and compared with the people with the educational level of junior middle school,the people with the education level of college or above are significantly less willing to get the urban households;Compared with the people with poor health status,the people with health status are more reluctant to get the urban households.Secondly,the willingness of labor migrants getting urban households is related to economic rationality and social rationality.Economic rationality,including family income,employment status,the development of the area and household costs,has a significant effect on the willingness.The labor migrants with higher family income,working in more developed city,are more inclined to get urban households,but the labor migrants with a higher cost,lower employment status are more inclined to get urban households;Social rationality,including social security,is positively related to urban households willingness,and the people who enjoy higher level of social security are more willing to get urban households;The people are less willing to get urban households if it means to give up the original land,houses,dividends and interests.Thirdly,social communication factors have an influence on the willingness of getting urban households.Among social relationship variables,the number of friends and the community relationship have significant positive correlation with the willingness of getting urban households,but the dialect level is not relevant to the willingness of getting urban households.The more friends the labor migrants have,the more willing to get local households;The better community relations the labor migrants have,the more willing to get urban households;The dialect level of a town is not significantly related to the willingness of getting urban households;There is only a weak negative correlation between them.What's more,Individual factors also have influence on labor migrants' register entering town willingness.In the face of making a choice,the older labor migrants are,the less possibility inclined to get urban households;The male are less willing to get urban households than the female;The married people are more reluctant to obtain urban households than unmarried people.Finally,this paper puts forward the research deficiency and the future research prospects.