外出务工经历有益于返乡农民工创业吗？

Does Migration Experience Promote Entrepreneurship in Rural China?

本文利用中国家庭住户收入调查(CHIP)的数据考察了外出务工经历与农村居民创业的关系。结果表明,外出务工经历将农村居民创业的概率显著提高了1.8个百分点以上,具有显著经济意义。通过工具变量方法和各类稳健性检验处理内生性问题后,结论仍然稳健。机制的进一步探讨发现,外出务工经历会通过增加返乡农民工创业的融资比例和人力资本积累促进创业,但是外出务工经历却在一定程度上损害了农民工在家乡地的社会资本。

Using the rural sample of CHIP 2007, this paper investigates the relationship between migration experience and entrepreneurship. We find that return migrants have a higher probability to be an entrepreneur than other local rural residents and this effectremains after controlling for endogeneity. We also find that migrant experience would increase the financing ratio to start business for return migrants, and thus promote local entrepreneur- ship. In addition, the migration experience has more significant impacts on those return migrants with lower education. However, the migration experience may have some negative impacts on return migrants＇local social networks.