TY  - CHAP
AB  - While there is evidence that return migration promotes entrepreneurship and self-employment of those who migrated, previous studies have not focused on whether migration provides the same benefits to individuals who did not migrate. Using a unique dataset that provides information on both current and return migrants in rural China (RUMiC), we investigate the impact of migration on entrepreneurship among individuals with no migration experience. We explore the self-employment choices of individuals who live in households with return migrants and individuals who live in households that have migrants currently in the city, comparing them with individuals living in non-migrant households. Our methodology allows us to control for the potential endogeneity between the migration and self-employment decisions. The results show that return migration promotes self-employment among household members who have not migrated. However, left-behind individuals are less likely to be self-employed when compared with those living in non-migrant households.
VL  - 37
SN  - 978-1-78190-756-6, 978-1-78190-757-3/0147-9121
DO  - 10.1108/S0147-9121(2013)0000037007
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0147-9121(2013)0000037007
AU  - Giulietti Corrado
AU  - Wahba Jackline
AU  - Zimmermann Klaus F.
ED  - Corrado Giulietti
ED  - Konstantinos Tatsiramos
ED  - Klaus F. Zimmermann
PY  - 2013
Y1  - 2013/01/01
TI  - Entrepreneurship of the Left-Behind
T2  - Labor Market Issues in China
T3  - Research in Labor Economics
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 65
EP  - 92
Y2  - 2024/04/26
ER  -