Achievement of Expected Goals, Perception of Social Equity, and Choice of Urban Settlement for Migrant Workers
Publication: ICCREM 2023
ABSTRACT
The article uses the 2010 Chinese general social survey data, use the theory of goal setting and the binary logit model, from the perspective of migrant workers, which analysis anticipated subject goal and social fair perception of the will of the peasant worker’s settling down in cities and towns of the main effect and regulation effect. Research has found that migrant workers can completely reach expected target and can be reached on the city settled choice has the effect to promote a positive significant, and higher than the annual household income growth, target part can reach and cannot reach to the choice of settling down in city did not have a significant effect, but the coefficient of phase target completely fail to reach an negative influence on the peasant worker’s settling down in city choices; social justice perceptions improve not only have significant positive effect on migrant workers city settled, and the expected goal and the choice of settling down in city relationship with adjustment effect.
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Published online: Nov 30, 2023
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