AN ANALYSIS OF URBAN LOW-INCOME ABORIGINES' EMPLOYMENT CHANGES AND INFLUENCING FACTORS AFTER FORCED MOVEMENT: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM NANJING
XIA Yong-jiu1, ZHU Xi-gang2
1. School of Architecture and Planning, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei 230022, China;
2. School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
Abstract This article takes Nanjing as an example, conducts both questionnaire investigation and community interviews, and studies the urban low-income aborigines' employment changes and their reasons and influencing factoring during the process of gentrification by using a binary Logistic regression model. The results indicate that most of urban low-income aborigines have experienced employment changes after forced movement; as for their reasons of employment change, the most important one is for movement cause, followed by personal or family cause, and then employer cause. In such three categories of movement causes, the spatial mismatch between settlement residence after forced movement and ideal work place is found to be the first and foremost cause for low-income groups' employment changes. This research also discovers a double feature of group universality and individual variety in the pattern of urban low-income aborigines' employment changes:specifically, people with lower education, older age and less household incomes per capita are more vulnerable for employment changes. In the process of gentrification, the urban low-income aborigines have been put to an obvious underprivileged position and in the meantime, forced movement has also intensified its internal differentiation to a certain extent. In the end this article sheds light on the industrial land arrangement, suburban public transport facilities configuration and social policies and provides optimizing countermeasures and suggestions from above aspects.
2015, Vol. 30 
