Identity,Personal Skills and Migrant Workers' Willingness to Return Their Home —An Empirical Study Based on the Data of CMDS
WANG Zhitao1, LI Hanbing1,2
1. School of Management, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou 450001, China; 2. Graduate School of Management, Malaysia University of Management and Science, Selangor Sha Anan 40100, Malaysia
Abstract Based on the China Migrants Dynamic Survey (CMDS) in 2017, this paper empirically analyzes the relationship among the sense of identity, personal skills and the migrant workers' willingness of returning home. The results show that there is a significant negative correlation between migrant workers' urban identity and their willingness to return home. And they are also significant after being added the variables of urban characteristic and individual characteristic successively. The level of personal skills has a significant impact on migrant workers' willingness to return home under the influence of resource endowment in their hometown. Heterogeneity analysis shows that the economic condition of migrant workers into the city, the flow scope of migrant workers, the income level and age of migrant workers will affect their willingness to return home. Therefore, it is suggested that we should improve the system and mechanism of labor mobility and and eliminate identity discrimination Completely so that migrant workers can root in cities and enjoy the same social security and public services as urban residents, and participate in the developing process of new urbanization on an equal footing. At the same time, we should provide a development platform for the employment and entrepreneurship of migrant workers so that they can really share the benefits of value-added industrial chain, and become an important force in rural governance and rural revitalization.
WANG Zhitao,LI Hanbing. Identity,Personal Skills and Migrant Workers' Willingness to Return Their Home —An Empirical Study Based on the Data of CMDS. Economic Survey, 2021, 38(3): 034.
2021, Vol. 38 
