TY - JOUR
T1 - Residential mobility in a changing housing system
T2 - Guangzhou, China, 1980-2001
AU - LI, Si Ming
AU - WANG, Donggen
AU - Law, Fion Yuk Ting
N1 - Funding Information:
1The authors would like to thank the anonymous referees for providing valuable comments on an earlier draft of the paper. Thanks also to the Center of Urban and Regional Studies of Sun Yat-sen University for assistance in data collection and to the Hong Kong Research Grant Council (HKBU 2135/04H) and Hong Kong Baptist University (FGR 30-02-0254) for financial support. 2 Correspondence should be addressed to Professor Si-ming Li, Department of Geography, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon, Hong Kong; telephone: 852-3411-7121; fax: 852-3411-5990; e-mail: [email protected]
PY - 2005/10/1
Y1 - 2005/10/1
N2 - Based on retrospective life histories derived from a sample of 1,500 households, the present study estimates the changing rate of residential mobility in Guangzhou, China, during the period 1980-2001. The estimated mobility rate shows a rapidly rising trend and this increase remains pronounced after taking into account the cohort effect inherent in retrospective histories. Marketization of the housing provision system has brought about increased residential changes. Discrete-time logit analysis shows that elements of the socialist redistributive economy, particularly the work-unit system, remains important in structuring residential change under market transition. More specifically, education and membership in the Chinese Communist Party enhance mobility. Almost invariably, change in employment is associated with a move. Whereas owning an apartment purchased from the work unit is associated with substantially lower mobility than are other ownership categories, renting from the work unit is associated with higher mobility than are other rent categories. However, as the case in the West, heightened residential mobility in Guangzhou is also a demographically-driven process. Change in marital status likely triggers residential change. Age exhibits the usual curvilinear effects, and gender is an important differentiator of residential mobility.
AB - Based on retrospective life histories derived from a sample of 1,500 households, the present study estimates the changing rate of residential mobility in Guangzhou, China, during the period 1980-2001. The estimated mobility rate shows a rapidly rising trend and this increase remains pronounced after taking into account the cohort effect inherent in retrospective histories. Marketization of the housing provision system has brought about increased residential changes. Discrete-time logit analysis shows that elements of the socialist redistributive economy, particularly the work-unit system, remains important in structuring residential change under market transition. More specifically, education and membership in the Chinese Communist Party enhance mobility. Almost invariably, change in employment is associated with a move. Whereas owning an apartment purchased from the work unit is associated with substantially lower mobility than are other ownership categories, renting from the work unit is associated with higher mobility than are other rent categories. However, as the case in the West, heightened residential mobility in Guangzhou is also a demographically-driven process. Change in marital status likely triggers residential change. Age exhibits the usual curvilinear effects, and gender is an important differentiator of residential mobility.
KW - China
KW - Discrete-time logit analysis
KW - Housing reform
KW - Mobility
KW - Residential life history
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U2 - 10.2747/0272-3638.26.7.627
DO - 10.2747/0272-3638.26.7.627
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:33744482543
SN - 0272-3638
VL - 26
SP - 627
EP - 639
JO - Urban Geography
JF - Urban Geography
IS - 7
ER -