Lose to win: entrepreneurship of returned migrants in China

Yu, Li; Yin, Xundong; Xiaoxian, Zheng; Li, Wenwei

doi:10.1007/s00168-016-0787-0

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“…Using the 2000 Census data, Rosenthal and Strange (2008) and Winters (2014) also find that workers with less than a college degree benefit from the concentration of college graduates in cities. Our finding is also consistent with a recent study by Yu, Li, Yin, and Zheng, (2017). They use the 2007 China Household Income Project Survey data and find that rural migrants who have worked in other provinces are more likely to become entrepreneurs when they return home, suggesting that rural migrants have accumulated human capital in cities.…”

Section: Rural Migrants Benefit From Labor Market Agglomeration Ecosupporting

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Do rural migrants benefit from labor market agglomeration economies? Evidence from Chinese cities

Yang

2020

Growth and Change

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We combine the 2005 China Inter‐Census Population Survey data and the 2004 China Manufacturing Census to test whether workers, particularly rural migrants, benefit from labor market Marshallian externalities. We find that workers in general, and rural migrants in particular, benefit from labor market pooling effects (measured by total employment in a city‐industry cell) and human capital externalities (measured by share of workers with a college degree or above in a city‐industry cell). These findings are robust to various sorting bias tests. However, rural migrants benefit much less than do local or urban workers, possibly because rural migrants lack social networks and are discriminated doubly in terms of being both “rural” and “migrants.” Our findings have policy implications on how Chinese cities can become skilled during the rapid urbanization process coupled with global competition.

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Section: Rural Migrants Benefit From Labor Market Agglomeration Ecosupporting

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Do rural migrants benefit from labor market agglomeration economies? Evidence from Chinese cities

Yang

2020

Growth and Change

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“…Modelling the migration distance addresses a key problem in regressing the distance for the movers alone, and it does not include people who do not migrate over this period. In this case, we need to deal both with selection bias and endogeneity, an issue that has been widely referred to in the econometrics literature (Wooldridge, ; Yu, Yin, Zheng, & LI, ).…”

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The determinants of elderly migration in France

Schaffar

Dimou

Mouhoud

2019

Papers in Regional Science

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The aim of this paper is to study elderly migration in France. First, it analyses whether the decision to migrate relies upon individual characteristics. Second, it examines the ways in which the economic, social and environmental characteristics of the French territories determine the retirees' choice of localization. The paper draws upon a unique database of 12.67 million French inhabitants, with information about their personal attributes and locational choices from 2003 to 2008. It also uses an original database with locational characteristics for the French territories at the level of the 364 zones d'emploi. This is the only study on regional migration in France which builds upon such a thin spatial level of analysis. The paper builds empirical probit and Heckman models dealing with selection bias and endogeneity bias issues. The paper shows that retirees usually leave large agglomerations and old industrial areas in Northern France and the Paris agglomeration and relocate to socially and environmentally attractive zones with preferable climates. When studying the migration patterns within the zones d'emploi, it appears that the most vulnerable zones, which display a lower quality of collective services as well as higher income disparities and crime rates, feature lower elderly residential mobility.

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“…One such policy is to create employment opportunities by encouraging entrepreneurship. As pointed out by Yu et al (2016), local governments could lower entrepreneurial entry barriers and therefore facilitate job creation by improving infrastructure and other economic conditions. Policies like these can indirectly boost the educational performance of school-age children.…”

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No longer left-behind: The impact of return migrant parents on children's performance

Liu

Xiaoxian

2018

China Economic Review

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Lose to win: entrepreneurship of returned migrants in China

Cited by 29 publications

References 28 publications

Do rural migrants benefit from labor market agglomeration economies? Evidence from Chinese cities

Do rural migrants benefit from labor market agglomeration economies? Evidence from Chinese cities

The determinants of elderly migration in France

No longer left-behind: The impact of return migrant parents on children's performance

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