Land Property Right and Internal Migration in China

Promoting internal migration has been a vital objective for Chinese government. Rural-urban migration have numerous advantages that can help the individual, the urban areas, and the country as a whole. However, there are obstacles presenting in the process of migration. This paper is going to mainly focus on the impact of land property rights on migration. We will investigate the relationship through different aspects. Providing relevant data sets, we examine how migration decisions of rural households can be influenced by both tenure insecurity and market mechanism. The results indicate that incomplete rural property rights will reduce migration and improved rights of secure possession will increase migration.