IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/paresc/v95y2016i2p383-407.html

Land tenure insecurity and rural†urban migration in rural China

Author

Listed:
  • Ma, Xianlei
  • Heerink, Nico
  • Ierland, Ekko
  • Shi, Xiaoping

Abstract

This paper examines the impact of land tenure security perceptions on rural†urban migration decisions of rural households, using data collected in Minle County in Northwest China. We find that tenure security perceptions play a significant role in household migration decisions in villages without well†functioning land rental markets but not in villages where the land rental markets are more developed. In villages with underdeveloped land rental markets, households that expect that no land reallocations will occur within their village in the near future are less involved in migration, while households that attach a greater importance to land certificates in protecting land use rights are more involved in migration.

Suggested Citation

Handle: RePEc:eee:paresc:v:95:y:2016:i:2:p:383-407
DOI: 10.1111/pirs.12129
as

Download full text from publisher

File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1056819023017529
Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/pirs.12129?utm_source=ideas
LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
---><---

As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to

for a different version of it.

More about this item

Keywords

;
;
;
;
;

JEL classification:

  • R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population

Statistics

Access and download statistics

Corrections

All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:paresc:v:95:y:2016:i:2:p:383-407. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/papers-in-regional-science .

Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.