Table 1 Literature Table of Hypotheses and Variables.

From: The influence of enterprise dormitories on the urban integration of migrant workers in China: an exploration of two distinct migration stages of individual and family migration and the differences between them

General hypotheses

Vice-hypotheses

Variables

Research points

Researches

Hypothesis 1

Hypothesis 1a

Piece wage

The enterprises ensure the low wage under time-rate salary system and augment labour time by the means of traditionally social network and human relationship.

Peng (2007)

Hypothesis 1b

Weekly labour time

The enterprise dormitory increases the labour time input of enterprise employees and controls the total amount of expenditure.

Hypothesis 1c

Hourly pay

Hypothesis 1d

Monthly pay

Hypothesis 2

Hypothesis 2a

Married

In the early researches on the enterprise community, the workers are mainly unmarried girls.

Jenny et al. (2013)

Hypothesis 2b

Initial employment

The migrants aim at economic integration when they get into the city life for the first time: finding the right job and gaining a foothold in the city.

Tian and Xu (2015)

Hypothesis 2c

Job stability

The younger migrant workers are, the more possible they will change their jobs.

Hypothesis 2d

Spouse reunion

Family migration is an advanced stage of migration.

When a core member has a stable work and life foundation, other family members (such as spouses) move into the city

Sheng (2014) Zhang et al. (2019)

Hypothesis 2e

Family reunion