Does the change of Hukou make the agricultural transfer population better integrated into the city?——Based on the perspective of social status and income level
This paper uses CFPS micro-survey data and PSM method to test whether agricultural transfer population is better integrated into the city after the transformation of Hukou from the social status and income level. The results show that:firstly,from the perspective of actual income level and social status,there is no significant difference between urban Hukou labor and Hukou conversion labor;secondly,the objective income level and actual social status of the labor who have changed Hukou are higher than those of rural Hukou labor on average. The discrimination of Hukou still exists in the labor market;finally,from the subjective indicators,the subjective evaluation of the income and social status of the rural Hukou labor is higher than that of the Hukou conversion labor,while the subjective evaluation of the income and social status of the Hukou conversion labor is higher than that of the urban Hukou groups. The reason may come from that the income and ISEI index of rural and Hukou conversion labor increase relatively fast,and their psychological satisfaction is also higher. The study confirmed that despite many rounds of reform of the registered residence system,registered residence discrimination still exists in the labor market,and the income level and social status of rural registered workers are still lower than those of urban registered workers;the gap between the income level and social status of rural to non rural workers and urban registered permanent residence workers is not significant. the conversion labors has basically integrated into the urban society,which shows that accelerating the process of urbanization of agricultural transfer population really helps to improve the income level and social status of agricultural transfer population. Based on this,suggestions are proposed to accelerate the equalization of basic public services in both urban and rural areas,and upgrade the urbanizaiton mechanism of cost sharing and benefit sharing.
Hukou conversionincome levelsocial statusagricultural transfer populationmatching