Floating or settling down: the effect of rural landholdings on the settlement intention of rural migrants in urban China

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1979-1999

  Hao, Pu ^a   Tang, Shuangshuang ^b  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Hukou; Jiangsu; landholdings; rural migrants; settlement intention

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL MIGRATION; LANDHOLDING; RECORD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL POPULATION; RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION; SETTLEMENT PLANNING; SURVEY;

CHINA; JIANGSU;

EID: 84946437365     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308518X15597131     Document Type: Article

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