Study On The Influencing Factors Of Migrant Workers’ City-settlement Willingness

Over the years, as the rapid growth of Chinese economic and social development, labormobility frequency is increasingly expediting. On the background of the acceleratingurbanization process, rural surplus labor in our country move to cities with unprecedentedspeed and scale every year. In2013, our country urbanization level is53%, however, most ofthem were counted as urban migrant workers, and just realized their careers shift fromagriculture to non-agricultural, their residence still detain in the countryside, or around the city.Such "amphibious type" life style of the most migrant workers, is not only the realembodiment of injustice rights that the institutional constraints brings to them, but also theactual reflection of lacking of sustainable livelihood skills. Hence, were migrant workersreally integrate into city life, not only to consider the implementation of the policy goals fromthe macroscopic view, more we should promote sustainable livelihoods skills of migrantworkers, enhance their willingness and confidence to stay in urban. In general, thecitizenization of migrant workers is the premise of migrant workers’ ability and willingness tobe citizenized, and their willingness to stay in the city will also be influenced by multiplefactors. In the case of the migrant workers’ equity is steadily focused on, revealing theinfluencing factors of their city-settlement willingness and its mechanism of action bysystematically investigating and analysis migrant workers’ living condition and thewillingness to stay in city is of great realistic significance and reference valuable for enrichinglabor migration theory and formulating the relevant policy of the migrantworkers’citizenization.The article makes an exemplification study in Yan’an, and adopts field research on themigrant workers with questionnaires in Yan Chang county, Luo Chuan county, and Yi Chuancounty of Yan’an by the way of random sampling survey, in views of dual economic theory,new economic theory, etc，uses logistic model to analyze the migrant workers’ willingness.Study found that more women than men is higher willingness to stay in the city, age,education and the expectations and confidence on the willingness to stay have a positiveimpact. Single migrant workers have strong willingness to stay in the city; married migrantworkers with their spouses in the same work places more inclined to stay in the city. Income, consumption, job stability also have some impact. The number of relatives and friends, thedifficulty of finding a job and discrimination against migrant workers have a certain influence.Type of housing, communication, the government and the public’s impression have nosignificant effect. In order to improve the willingness of migrant workers, should focus onincreasing the workers’ ability to adapt to city life, promoting family transferred residencespouse and children’s education to solve problems, and actively carry out communityactivities enrich lives of migrant workers migrant workers in the city enhanced sense ofbelonging.