Housing cost burden, homeownership, and self-rated health among migrant workers in Chinese cities: The confounding effect of residence duration

《Housing cost burden, homeownership, and self-rated health among migrant workers in Chinese cities: The confounding effect of residence duration》

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作者: Yi Wang

来源: CITIES,Vol.134,Issue1,Article 104128

语言: 英文

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作者单位: Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA;Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA;Department of Maritime Technologies, Chalmers University of Technology, SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden;Volvo Group AB, SE-40508 Gothenburg, Sweden;School of Business, Economics and Law, Department of Business Administration, Division of Industrial and Financial Management and Logistics, University of Gothenburg, SE-40530 Gothenburg, Sweden;State Key laboratory of urban and regional Ecology, Research Center for Eco-environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China;University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Urban Megaregion National Observation and Research Station for Eco-Environmental Change, Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China;Xiongan Institute of Innovation, Xiongan New Area, 071000, China;Epoka University, rr. Tiranë-Rinas, Km 12, 1039 Tirana, Albania;Tirana Metropolitan University, rr. Sotir Kolea, 1000 Tirana, Albania;Brown University, Population and Studies Training Center, 68 Waterman St, Providence, RI 02912, United States of America;Vanderbilt University, Department of Sociology, PMB 351811, Nashville, TN 37235-1811, United States of America;State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology (ESPRE), Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;School of Urban Planning & Design, Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518055, China;School of Natural Resources, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada;Universidade Tecnologica Federal do Parana, Curitiba, Brazil

摘要: Housing is a critical social determinant of health. Research on the impact of housing on health among migrants is more complex than that of the general population because of migrants' health decline over time: while migrants exhibit a health advantage upon arrival, they gradually lose it as they stay longer in the host city. Existing studies on migrants' housing and health have paid little attention to the confounding effect of residence duration and are thus prone to misleading results. Using data from the 2017 China Migrants Dynamic Survey (CMDS), this study fills in the gap by examining how the incorporation of residence duration alters the relationship of housing cost burden and homeownership with migrant self-rated health (SRH). The study shows that migrant workers with higher housing cost burden and longer residence duration tend to have worse SRH. Incorporating residence duration attenuates the crude association between homeownership and worse SRH. The results imply that the health decline among migrants can be attributed to the discriminatory hukou system—a system that limits migrants' access to social welfare and puts them in a socioeconomically disadvantaged position. The study thus emphasizes the removal of structural and socio-economic barriers faced by the migrant population.