The Influence of Foreign Direct Investment on Physical Health of Rural-Urban Migrants—Empirical Evidence from China Migrants Dynamic Survey

Guixin Han, Pengcheng Liu, Yihang Zhao, Yinyin Liang and Xiaojie Wang ()
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Guixin Han: School of Management, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China
Pengcheng Liu: School of Economics, Qingdao University, Qingdao 266100, China
Yihang Zhao: School of Management, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China
Yinyin Liang: Nottingham University Business School China, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo 315100, China
Xiaojie Wang: School of Management, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 5, 1-13

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to explore the influence of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on rural-urban migrants’ physical health and its influencing mechanism. A total of 134,920 rural-urban migrant samples are matched based on the China Migrants Dynamic Survey in 2017 and the China Urban Statistical Yearbook in 2016. On the basis of the samples, a Binary Probit Model is used to explore the relationship between the degree of FDI and rural-urban migrants’ physical health. The results show that compared with migrants who lived in cities with a lower FDI level, rural-urban migrants who lived in cities with a higher FDI level are better in physical health. The results of the mediation effect model show that the degree of FDI has a significant positive impact on employment rights and benefits the protection of rural-urban migrants, improving rural-urban migrants’ physical health, which means employment rights and benefits protection plays an intermediary role in the process of FDI affecting rural-urban migrants’ physical health. Therefore, when formulating public policies such as plans to improve the physical health of rural-urban migrants, not only the availability of medical services for rural-urban migrants needs to be improved, but the positive spillover effect of FDI should be taken into account. By doing so, FDI can positively affect the physical health of rural-urban migrants.

Keywords: foreign direct investment; physical health; rural-urban migrants in China; employment rights (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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