Multi-dimensional Proximity and the Destination Selection of Floating Population's Family Migration
It is of great significance to understand the floating population's nuclear family migration pattern and its selection mechanism of migration destination area for promoting the citizenization of the floating population and realizing"people-centered urbanization".Based on the data of China Migrants Dynamic Survey data(CMDS)2017,this paper applies conditional logit model to analyze the influence of multidimensional proximity between the migration destination area and the original household area on the selection of floating population families'migration destination area.The results show:(1)the proximity of wage level,industrial structure,acquisition of information and services between the two areas have significantly negative effects on family migration,while the geographic and institutional proximity have significant positive effect on the migration between two areas.The environmental resistance,represented by geographic and institutional factors,has the greatest impact on the nuclear family migration.In addition,high economic and social potentials can increase the probability of the migration between the areas;(2)the effect of proximity has interactive effect,and the favorable institutions,lower information search costs,similar wages,industrial structures and public services all can dampen the negative effects of geographic distance on migration;(3)There are heterogeneous effects in the difference of migration areas,original area of hukou(household registration),and family types.The families migrate to East region are less affected by public service proximity,while those move to Central region are more affected by economic potential and those moves to West and the Northeast region are more affected by social potential.The hukou of original areas has conditional effects on the selection of migration destination,the different levels of human capital and types of hukou also influence the location choice of the floating population's family migration.
Multi-dimensional proximityFamily migrationSelection of migration destinationRegional heterogeneity