Original Articles: 2014 Vol: 6 Issue: 5
A Statistical Study on How Migrant Workers Choose Migration Patterns ?¢?????¢????A Case in Shandong Province of China
Abstract
Healthy migration of migrant workers is an important symbol of urbanization development. Compared with the individual migration, family migration is a healthy pattern of urban migrant workers’ migration. Based on the survey data of migrant workers’ family in Shandong province of China, the paper analyzes the influencing factors of the choices of urban migrant workers’ migration patterns and finds that wage income is the determining factor for urban migrant workers to choose family migration and then live in the city, farmland is the most difficult rural asset for them to abandon during migration process, housing price is the biggest obstacle for their families to settle in the city. The statistical significance and importance of the influencing factors are different in two stages of urban migrant workers’ migration.