大城市有利于农民工创业吗

Do Big Cities Contribute to Entrepreneurship of Migrant Workers

利用2014年全国流动人口动态监测调查和2015年《中国城市统计年鉴》数据,实证研究了城市规模对农民工创业的影响。研究发现:总体来说,城市规模对农民工创业具有显著的促进作用;平均而言,城市规模每扩大1%,农民工创业概率会提高7.05个百分点左右。同时,研究还发现:城市规模对农民工"生存型"创业的促进作用更大,对低技能农民工创业的积极效应也更明显;城市规模对消费性服务业农民工创业具有显著促进作用,但对生产性服务业则不具有统计显著影响。减少农民工的空间流动性障碍,将有助于农民工创业,使农民工更好地受益于大城市。

The paper researches empirically the relation between city size and entrepreneurship by using the Dynamic Monitoring Survey for floating population in 2014 and China city statistical yearbook in 2015. It finds out that the bigger one city, the greater the probability of entrepreneurship of migrant workers. On average, city size increase by 1%, the probability of entrepreneurship of migrant workers would increase by 7.05 percentage points. In addition, the role in promoting ＂survival - type＂ business is much more obvi- ous, the same as that for low - skilled migrant workers. Besides, city size has a significant impact upon migrant workers in consumer services industry, but this effect not be found in productive service industries. Therefore, reducing the obstacle in spatial mobility is helpful to migrant workers＇ entrepreneurship and could let them benefit much more from the big city.