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Housing expenditure and home purchasing behaviors of rural-urban migrants in China

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  • Xiujuan Tian
  • Jiankun Hu
  • Caiping Zhang
  • Yang Zhao

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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the housing behaviors of rural-urban migrant workers in China and the associated socioeconomic determinants. Design/methodology/approach - The authors developed a model to empirically identify the effects of income in multi-dimension, destination expected to live in the future, local housing policy, and a set of individual characteristics on housing-related expenditure and home purchase of rural-urban migrants. A survey data collected by the Development Research Center of the State Council was employed. Findings - The results showed that migrants’ expecting place to live in the future is a significant factor influencing their housing-related decisions. Including migrant workers in local housing security system of the host city could also significantly improve their incentive to purchase home. Income jointly with income stability affects migrants’ housing-related expenditure positively, but has an insignificant effect on home purchases in host city. The cost to buy home in city is still far away from migrant’s affordability is a likely explanation. Originality/value - To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study aiming to investigate rural-urban migrants’ housing behavior in host city and to empirically identify the associated influencing factors.

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  • Xiujuan Tian & Jiankun Hu & Caiping Zhang & Yang Zhao, 2017. "Housing expenditure and home purchasing behaviors of rural-urban migrants in China," China Agricultural Economic Review, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 9(4), pages 558-566, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:caerpp:caer-12-2016-0201
    DOI: 10.1108/CAER-12-2016-0201
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    Cited by:

    1. Shengqin Zheng & Ye Cheng & Yingjie Ju, 2019. "Understanding the Intention and Behavior of Renting Houses among the Young Generation: Evidence from Jinan, China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(6), pages 1-18, March.
    2. Xiaohong Deng & Lei Gong & Yanfang Gao & Xiaoqing Cui & Ke Xu, 2018. "Internal Differentiation within the Rural Migrant Population from the Sustainable Urban Development Perspective: Evidence from China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-15, December.

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