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https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2023.2205923
Far from home: migration, venture and income mobility
Jun Zhou
Qingyu Lang
Guohua Ni
Pengpeng Yue
Sažetak
This work focuses on the role that interregional migration within
a country can play in fostering intragenerational income mobility
through its effect on households’ participation in business venture.
Unique panel data on Chinese households from 2015 to
2019 identifies migration experience and provides detailed information
on income and entrepreneurial activities. Our key finding
is that migration increases upward economic mobility within
cohorts by enhancing opportunities of entrepreneurship, and this
pattern is more salient in regions with more severe inequality.
Consequently, migrant population in these areas enjoy greater
chances when climbing income ladders, which may further alleviate
regional income inequality in the long run. The estimation
results remain robust when winsorising income, using sub-samples
of follow-up households in repeated surveys and altering the
scale of income mobility. The analysis in this article, coupled with
literature on migration and entrepreneurship, provides a new perspective
on how free migration matters in improving intragenerational
mobility and longer-term income distribution.
Ključne riječi
internal migration; intragenerational mobility; entrepreneurial behaviour; income inequality
Hrčak ID:
314878
URI
Datum izdavanja:
25.5.2023.
Posjeta: 46 *