Impact Of Urban Public Service On Settlement Intention Of Migrant Workers

Since the 1980s,legions of farmers have left their homes and engaged in non-agricultural work in cities and towns of our country.According to the National Bureau of Statistics,the total number of migrant workers entering the city in 2017 was about 287 million,that increased by 1.7%over last year.The transfer of surplus labor from the agricultural sector to the industrial sector is one of the key growth engines for China.However,with the transfer of rural labor to the cities,the labor reservoirs are gradually disappearing in the process of urbanization.China's economy has been changing from rapid economic growth to higher quality growth,and it is necessary to look for new engines of economic growth.Realizing the citizenization of migrant workers will help raise the willingness of migrant workers to consume,that is one of the driving forces for China's economic growth in the new era.The settlement of migrant workers in cities is an important part of the citizenization of migrant workers,which has attracted the attention of scholars.This paper uses the national migrant population dynamic monitoring data in 2016 to observe the distribution characteristics of the migrant workers' settlement intention.In general,settlement intention of migrant workers is lower than that of non-agricultural households.From the spatial distribution,the inland migrant workers have a higher willingness to settle in cities,but the floating population is mainly concentrated in the eastern part of China.From the perspective of public services,the level of urban public service supply,and the migrant workers'settlement intention in cities are positively correlated.First of all,this paper used the data of 249 cities nationwide to set up a Logit model to study the impact of urban public service level on the settlement intention of migrant workers without considering public service threshold.The research results show that the level of urban public service supply has a significant positive impact on the settlement intention of migrant workers,which varies from generation to generation.The new generation of migrant workers cares more about the level of urban public service supply than the older generation of migrant workers.Then,based on the realistic path of migrant workers in China to obtain urban public services,this paper uses AHP to construct the urban public service threshold,including the settlement threshold,high school entrance threshold and the college entrance threshold,and studies the impact of urban public service threshold on the settlement intention of migrant workers.The results show that the urban public service threshold has a significant negative impact on the settlement intention of migrant workers with children,while the migrant workers with children account for more than 90%of the total number of migrant workers.At the same time,the level of urban public service supply has a robust effect on the settlement intention of migrant workers.Finally,based on the above analysis results,this paper puts forward some policy suggestions for reasonably increasing the willingness of migrant workers to stay in the city and promoting the citizenization of migrant workers.