The Effects of Vocational-Skills Training on Migrant Workers’ Willingness to Settle in Urban Areas in China

Chuangxin Zhao, Manping Tang () and Houjian Li
Additional contact information
Chuangxin Zhao: College of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
Manping Tang: College of Management, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China
Houjian Li: College of Economics, Sichuan Agricultural University, Chengdu 611130, China

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 19, 1-17

Abstract: Using the micro data of the China Labor Force Dynamics Survey (CLDS), this study constructed an employment quality index of migrant workers by using the factor analysis method, it used the binary logistic model and the intermediary effect model to explore the urban-settlement intention of 1451 migrant workers in 29 cities in China, and it empirically analyzed the impact and internal mechanism of vocational-skills training on migrant workers’ willingness to settle in urban areas. The results show that (1) there is a significant positive relationship between the vocational-skills training and the migrant workers’ settlement intention. A further analysis showed that the empirical results remain robust after correcting endogeneity bias by using the instrumental variable model; and (2) participating in vocational-skills training can improve the employment quality of migrant workers, which would result in the increase of migrant workers’ willingness to settle in urban areas, and employment quality plays the significant intermediary role in this path. (3) The heterogeneity test results show that participating in vocational-skills training has a larger effect on the willingness to settle in urban areas of older-generation, female, and married migrant workers. Therefore, this paper makes the following suggestions: the government should do a good job of top-level design of vocational-skills training for migrant workers, increase investment in human capital of migrant workers, and improve the employment quality of migrant workers.

Keywords: vocational-skills training; migrant workers; settlement intention; employment quality; urban China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/19/11914/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/19/11914/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:14:y:2022:i:19:p:11914-:d:921237

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().