Giulietti, Corrado; Ning, Guangjie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self …-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose self-employment or paid work based on the … potential gains from either type of employment; the second takes into account that the determinants of the migration decision …