| Currently,China is vigorously promoting the construction of a new type of urbanization with people at its core,which helps achieve high-quality economic development.Accelerating the process of promoting the citizenship of the agricultural transfer population and improving the quality of the citizenship of the agricultural transfer population have received widespread attention.To enhance the willingness of the agricultural transfer population to integrate into the city and promote their integration into the city,research can be conducted from the perspective of social integration.Social integration includes not only the purposes of agricultural migrants entering cities,such as improving their income level,settling down and having quality public service resources,but also improving their psychological feelings,such as increasing their sense of identity,happiness and belonging to the cities they live in.For those who are unable to integrate into the city,we also need to pay attention to their next flow,which will help government departments to formulate relevant policies.After the weakening of the institutional threshold represented by the household registration,important factors that hinder the integration of agricultural migrants into cities include the excessive burden of housing and the difficulty in obtaining equal allocation of public service resources.Housing is a necessity of life,and a good living environment helps to improve the overall welfare status of families and the health level of individuals.In order to study the impact of housing burden on social integration of agricultural migrants,this paper examines the relationship between housing burden and social integration of agricultural migrants using the China Mobility Monitor(CMDS)2017 microsurvey data to further investigate the impact of public rental housing on social integration of agricultural migrants.This paper also verifies the relationship from other aspects.First,the robustness test is conducted by excluding the first-tier and new first-tier samples and replacing the explanatory and explained variables.Second,the paper also examines how the level of public services,education,gender,and whether or not one owns a home base,contracted land,and parental mobility experience differentially affect the social integration of the agricultural transfer population.Finally,to address possible endogeneity issues,this paper uses the degree of fiscal decentralization as an instrumental variable.This paper finds that the higher the housing burden in the city where the agricultural transfer population is located,the lower the degree of social integration,and the regression results are more significant especially for the low-education,female group.Compared to the group with home base and contracted land,the group without home base and contracted land has lower social integration.The higher the level of public services in the city where the agricultural migrant population is located,the easier it is to integrate into the city.Housing expenses will squeeze the non-housing consumption of agricultural migrants and reduce their participation in collective activities,which will have a negative impact on social integration.If the agricultural transfer population lives in public rental housing,it can weaken the negative impact of housing burden on the social integration of the agricultural transfer population.Based on the above findings,this paper proposes that the government should focus on the housing problem and introduce more subsidized and rental housing.The government should also increase capital investment to build public service facilities and promote equal allocation of public service resources.At the same time,the government should also increase the frequency of community training and carry out activities such as psychological counseling and public recreation to help the migrant agricultural population improve their psychological feelings and help them integrate into the city more quickly. |
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