Author(s)

Siyi Zhang

Corresponding Author

Siyi Zhang

ABSTRACT

For most migrants, residence condition within the immigration areas has been an important factor to make their settlement decision. The internal immigration is a very common phenomenon in China and those migrants’ living condition is affected in every aspect of life. This paper aims to explore the influence of the housing policy ‘Limited Purchasing Order’ on internal migrants in China in recent years and discuss about the major causes and consequences. Although the enactment of the house-purchase restriction has regional differences in cities, the regional pattern and migration distribution overall is quite similar over time. So this paper would ignore the minor differences and collect records of migrants in ten representative immigration cities. The data would be analysed in a theoretical and empirical ways. By applying DID (difference in differences) estimation method, the hypothesis that the limited purchasing order on house negatively affects internal migration willingness, which is represented by growth rate of internal migrants, has been verified.

KEYWORDS

House-purchase restriction, internal migration, growth rate, DID estimation