  Push-pull theory, one of the most important macro theories in demography,
argues that population migration is driven by a combination of push (repulsive)
forces at the place of emigration and pull (attractive) forces at the place of
emigration. Based on the push-pull theory, this paper shows another practical
perspective of the theory by measuring the reverse push and pull forces from
the perspective of housing property rights. We use OLS and sequential Probit
models to analyze the impact of urban and rural property rights factors on the
social integration of the migrant population-based, on "China Migrants' Dynamic
Survey". We found that after controlling for personal and urban
characteristics, there is a significant negative effect of rural property
rights (homestead) ownership of the mobile population on their socio-economic
integration, and cultural and psychological integration in the inflow area. The
effect of urban house price on social integration of the migrant population is
consistent with the "inverted U-shaped" nonlinear assumption: when the house
price to income ratio of the migrant population in the inflow area increases
beyond the inflection point, its social integration level decreases. That is,
there is an inverse push force and pull force mechanism of housing property
rights on population mobility.
