The extant literature on international immigrants has discussed migrants’entrepreneurial activities in the context of Western countries but has paid little attention to return-home entrepreneurial intention(RHEI).Rur...The extant literature on international immigrants has discussed migrants’entrepreneurial activities in the context of Western countries but has paid little attention to return-home entrepreneurial intention(RHEI).Rural migrant workers(RMWs)in China,who used to promote rural development by remittances and were characterized by similarities with early international migrants,have gradually returned to their hometowns to initiate entrepreneurial activities.Based on the structured questionnaire conducted in 2015 and 2020in Anhui Province,China,this article combines the concept of mixed embeddedness with the idea of double-layered embeddedness and analyzes the impacts of the social,economic and institutional context in RMWs’hometowns and migration destinations on RMWs’RHEI by using binary logistic regression.The article shows that the social,economic,and institutional environments of RMWs’hometowns and migration destinations have effects on their RHEI.The embeddedness in the economic and informal institutional context in RMWs’RHEI is even more important than personal characteristics.Compared with migration destinations,RMWs’hometowns exert a more influential effect on their RHEI.However,that does not mean that the role of migration destinations can be undervalued.Actually,the better the social,economic,and institutional environments of migration destinations RMWs moved into is,the higher entrepreneurial intention they will have after returning to their hometowns.The article proposes a modified framework in combination of mixed embeddedness with double-layer embeddedness and proves that it is suitable for analyzing RMWs’RHEI.The framework has important implications for strengthening China’s RMWs to return home to start their own businesses.展开更多
Based on a theoretical framework,this paper uses a multilevel model to examine the factors that correlate with the settlement intentions of China’s new-generation migrants.The level of regional economic development e...Based on a theoretical framework,this paper uses a multilevel model to examine the factors that correlate with the settlement intentions of China’s new-generation migrants.The level of regional economic development exerts not only random effects,but also an interaction effect with social integration on urban settlement intentions.Economic factors,including household income and home ownership,have a significant positive correlation with settlement intentions,while social char-acteristics such as social integration and social identification also have a positive correlation with the settlement intentions of new-generation migrants.Moreover,family migration strategies,parental migration experiences,short migration dis-tances,and long migration durations enhance urban settlement intentions.The set-tlement intentions exhibit significant inter-group differences between the migrants born in the 1980s and in the 1990s.Differences in the effects of the determinants are observed between these group samples and the total sample.展开更多
China has entered the middle-to-late stage of urbanization.The scale of urbanto-urban migrants,which more refers to the urban-to-urban floating population(UUFP)across China,has significantly increased.UUFP settlement ...China has entered the middle-to-late stage of urbanization.The scale of urbanto-urban migrants,which more refers to the urban-to-urban floating population(UUFP)across China,has significantly increased.UUFP settlement intention is a crucial issue for urbanization development.This study examines the spatial pattern and factors influencing the settlement intention of the UUFP in China based on data obtained through its dynamic monitoring in 2017 and the binary logistic model.The results show that most members of the UUFP were married,older,better educated,and had a higher income than the average person with extensive migration experience.We correlated a high settlement intention with developed economies,coastal areas,good environmental conditions,and more amenities in cities such as Beijing,Tianjin,Shanghai,and Zhuhai.Amenities were more impactful on settlement intention than economic factors,from individual and regional perspectives.The UUFP more often sought equality of education for children and social integration in its choices of destinations.However,the distance was not a hindrance to intention to settle but played a substantial role in influencing it.We suggest optimizing the stock of the UUFP in large cities,improving public education services,and promoting remote urbanization.Likewise,industrial transfer and enhanced public resources may ease the pressure of large UUFP flows into large cities.展开更多
基金Under the auspices of National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.42071152)。
文摘The extant literature on international immigrants has discussed migrants’entrepreneurial activities in the context of Western countries but has paid little attention to return-home entrepreneurial intention(RHEI).Rural migrant workers(RMWs)in China,who used to promote rural development by remittances and were characterized by similarities with early international migrants,have gradually returned to their hometowns to initiate entrepreneurial activities.Based on the structured questionnaire conducted in 2015 and 2020in Anhui Province,China,this article combines the concept of mixed embeddedness with the idea of double-layered embeddedness and analyzes the impacts of the social,economic and institutional context in RMWs’hometowns and migration destinations on RMWs’RHEI by using binary logistic regression.The article shows that the social,economic,and institutional environments of RMWs’hometowns and migration destinations have effects on their RHEI.The embeddedness in the economic and informal institutional context in RMWs’RHEI is even more important than personal characteristics.Compared with migration destinations,RMWs’hometowns exert a more influential effect on their RHEI.However,that does not mean that the role of migration destinations can be undervalued.Actually,the better the social,economic,and institutional environments of migration destinations RMWs moved into is,the higher entrepreneurial intention they will have after returning to their hometowns.The article proposes a modified framework in combination of mixed embeddedness with double-layer embeddedness and proves that it is suitable for analyzing RMWs’RHEI.The framework has important implications for strengthening China’s RMWs to return home to start their own businesses.
基金This work was funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China Grant number 19CRK020.
文摘Based on a theoretical framework,this paper uses a multilevel model to examine the factors that correlate with the settlement intentions of China’s new-generation migrants.The level of regional economic development exerts not only random effects,but also an interaction effect with social integration on urban settlement intentions.Economic factors,including household income and home ownership,have a significant positive correlation with settlement intentions,while social char-acteristics such as social integration and social identification also have a positive correlation with the settlement intentions of new-generation migrants.Moreover,family migration strategies,parental migration experiences,short migration dis-tances,and long migration durations enhance urban settlement intentions.The set-tlement intentions exhibit significant inter-group differences between the migrants born in the 1980s and in the 1990s.Differences in the effects of the determinants are observed between these group samples and the total sample.
基金National Natural Sciences Foundation of China,No.42171237。
文摘China has entered the middle-to-late stage of urbanization.The scale of urbanto-urban migrants,which more refers to the urban-to-urban floating population(UUFP)across China,has significantly increased.UUFP settlement intention is a crucial issue for urbanization development.This study examines the spatial pattern and factors influencing the settlement intention of the UUFP in China based on data obtained through its dynamic monitoring in 2017 and the binary logistic model.The results show that most members of the UUFP were married,older,better educated,and had a higher income than the average person with extensive migration experience.We correlated a high settlement intention with developed economies,coastal areas,good environmental conditions,and more amenities in cities such as Beijing,Tianjin,Shanghai,and Zhuhai.Amenities were more impactful on settlement intention than economic factors,from individual and regional perspectives.The UUFP more often sought equality of education for children and social integration in its choices of destinations.However,the distance was not a hindrance to intention to settle but played a substantial role in influencing it.We suggest optimizing the stock of the UUFP in large cities,improving public education services,and promoting remote urbanization.Likewise,industrial transfer and enhanced public resources may ease the pressure of large UUFP flows into large cities.
