Why do skilled migrants’ housing tenure outcomes and tenure aspirations vary among different family lifecycle stages?

《Why do skilled migrants’ housing tenure outcomes and tenure aspirations vary among different family lifecycle stages?》

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作者: Lin Chen;Haitao Du;Eddie Chi-man Hui;Jianhui Tan;Yaoxu Zhou

来源: HABITAT INTERNATIONAL,Vol.123,P.102553

语言: 英文

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作者单位: School of Management, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, China;Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK;Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong;School of Management, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, China;Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK;Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong;School of Spatial Planning and Design, Zhejiang University City College, Hangzhou, China;School of Public Administration, Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics, Hangzhou, China;Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Ningbo, China;Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana;Environmental Change and Governance Group (ECGG), School of Planning, Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, Canada;Department of Geography, Planning, Environment, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;School of Applied Economics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China;Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong;The State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution (SKLMP) and Department of Public Policy, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China;Shenzhen Research Institute, City University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, 518057, China;School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, 2 Southeast University Road, Jiangning District, Nanjing, 211189, China;National School of Development and Policy, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, China;Business School, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia;School of Public Affairs Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China;Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China

摘要: Previous studies mainly focused on rural-urban migrants' homeownership preferences from discrete life events. Few studies concentrated on skilled migrants' homeownership outcomes and aspirations from family lifecycle theory. To fill these gaps, this paper, based on a questionnaire survey in Guangzhou, used the Probit regression models to investigate why skilled migrants' homeownership outcomes and aspirations vary among different family lifecycle stages. It found that skilled migrants in the bachelor stage and newly married couple stage are less likely to become homeowners in Guangzhou; the possible reason is that they lack the adequate wealth to purchase housing due to lower income and insufficient savings. With the income and savings increasing, skilled migrants in the full and empty nest stages are more likely to become homeowners in Guangzhou. In addition, skilled migrants in the bachelor stage, full nest stage, and empty nest stage are more eager to access homeownership; the possible reasons include homeownership accumulating wealth rapidly, homeownership providing housing stability, and homeownership tied with quality educational resources, and giving children housing support. Skilled migrants in newly married couples have a higher tendency to rent housing because they do not decide to settle in Guangzhou permanently, and renting housing is more flexible. These findings can provide strong evidence of the gap between skilled migrants' housing tenure outcomes and aspirations in China's super cities from the family lifecycle theory.