TITLE:
A Study on Factors Driving Rural Homestead Transfer in the Market Based on the Push and Pull Theory
AUTHORS:
Yongjian Liu, Haoyue Zhang, Xiaozhong Yang
KEYWORDS:
Rural Homestead, Market Transfer, Push and Pull Theory, Driving Factors, Logistic Regression
JOURNAL NAME:
Chinese Studies,
Vol.12 No.3,
July
25,
2023
ABSTRACT: The Push
and Pull Theory was originally used to study human migration, and has since
been enriched and refined. Push and Pull Theory holds that the factors which promote population transfer
mainly include the push factor, pull factor, intermediate obstacle factor and individual
factors. Based
on the Push and Pull Theory and field investigation, a Logistic regression
model is established, and the forces driving rural homesteads into market circulation are looked at in this study through quantitative
investigations. The study finds that better employment
opportunities and higher income, quality infrastructure and educational
resources, household registration system reform, and better access to education and skills training for farmers in cities
have a positively significant impact on the market based rural homestead
circulation, while excessively high urban housing prices, poor levels of rural
infrastructure and social security, age of farmers, location of
homestead and the ways farmers want to be compensated have a significantly
negative impact. Some policy suggestions are put forward to optimize policies
related to homestead transfer in the market from urbanization, rural
infrastructure development, household
registration system reform, risk assessment and compensation mode, etc.