Return Migrants: The Rise of New Entrepreneurs in Rural China

Arif, 1997, Return migration and occupational change: The case of Pakistani migrants returned from the Middle East, The Pakistan Development Review, 36, 1, 10.30541/v36i1pp.1-37 Bauer, T., & Gang, I. N. (2002). Networks and the duration of temporary migration. Working Paper No: 1998-11, Rutgers University. Baum, C. F., Schaffer, M. E., Stillman, S., & Wiggins, V. (2006). Overid: Stata module to calculate tests of overidentifying restrictions after ivreg, ivreg2, ivprobit, reg3. <http://ideas.repec.org/c/boc/bocode/s396802.html>. Blanchflower, 1998, What makes an entrepreneur?, Journal of Labor Economics, 16, 26, 10.1086/209881 Borjas, 1996, Who leaves? The out-migration of the foreign-born, Review of Economics and Statistics, 78, 165, 10.2307/2109856 Coulon, 2005, Self-selection and the performance of return migrants: The source country perspective, Journal of Population Economics, 18, 779, 10.1007/s00148-005-0004-4 De Brauw, 2008, Migration and household investment in rural China, China Economic Review, 19, 320, 10.1016/j.chieco.2006.10.004 Djajic, 1988, A general equilibrium model of guest-work migration – The source country perspective, Journal of International Economics, 25, 335, 10.1016/0022-1996(88)90059-1 Dou, 2001, Dui Wuwei jingji laowu shuchu de diaocha he sikao (Survey and Thinking on Wuwei economic labor exporting), Xiangzhen Jingji, 4, 25 Du, 2005, Migration and rural poverty in China, Journal of Comparative Economics, 33, 688, 10.1016/j.jce.2005.09.001 Dustmann, 1995, Savings behavior of return migrants – A life-cycle analysis, Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschafts-und Sozialwissenschaften, 4, 511 Dustmann, 2002, The optimal migration duration and activity choice after re-migration, Journal of Development Economics, 67, 351, 10.1016/S0304-3878(01)00193-6 Ellis, 1998, Survey article: Household strategies and rural livelihood diversification, The Journal of Development Studies, 35, 1, 10.1080/00220389808422553 Evans, 1989, An estimated model of entrepreneurial choice under liquidity constraints, Journal of Political Economy, 97, 808, 10.1086/261629 Evans, 1989, Some empirical aspects of entrepreneurship, The American Economic Review, 79, 519 Fonseca, 2001, Entrepreneurship, start-up costs and employment, European Economic Review, 45, 692, 10.1016/S0014-2921(01)00131-3 Galor, 1990, Migrants’ savings, the probability of return migration and migrants’ performance, International Economic Review, 31, 463, 10.2307/2526851 Gao, 2007, Nongmingong huiliu de yuanyin ji yingxing fenxi [Analysis on the causes and impact of return migrants], Management of Agricultural Science and Technology (Nongye keji guanli), 26, 66 Gao, F. (2001). Report on an investigation on the female return migrants in Wuwei County. Internal report, Anhui Women’s Union (in Chinese). Giles, 2006, Is life more risky in the open? Household risk-coping and the opening of China’s labor markets, Journal of Development Economics, 81, 25, 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2005.04.006 Greene, 1998, Gender economics courses in liberal arts colleges: Further results, Journal of Economic Education, 29, 291, 10.1080/00220489809595921 Greene, 2008 Haile, G. A. (2008). Determinants of self-employment in urban Ethiopia: Panel data based evidence. PSI Discussion Paper: 1. Hare, 1999, ‘Push’ versus ‘pull’ factors in migration outflows and returns: determinants of migration status and spell duration among China’s rural population, The Journal of Development Studies, 35, 45, 10.1080/00220389908422573 Holtz-Eakin, 1994, Entrepreneurial decision and liquidity constraints, RAND Journal of Economics, 23, 334, 10.2307/2555834 Huang, J., Zhi, H., Huang, Z., Rozelle, S., & Giles, J. (in press). The impact of the global financial crisis on off-farm employment and earnings in rural China. World Development, doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2010.09.017. Huang, 2005, Internal migration in China: Linking it to development Ilahi, 1999, Return migration and occupational change, Review of Development Economics, 3, 170, 10.1111/1467-9361.00059 Kihlstrom, 1979, A general equilibrium entrepreneurial theory of firm formation based on risk aversion, Journal of Political Economy, 87, 719, 10.1086/260790 Knight, 2005 Laczko, 2005, Introduction: Migration, development and poverty reduction in Asia Lucas, 1978, On the size distribution of business firms, Bell Journal of Economics, 9, 508, 10.2307/3003596 Ma, 2001, Urban labor–force experience as a determinant of rural occupation change: Evidence from recent urban–rural return migration in China, Environment and Planning A, 33, 237, 10.1068/a3386 Ma, 2002, Social-capital mobilization and income returns to entrepreneurship: The case of return migration in rural China, Environment and Planning A, 34, 1763, 10.1068/a34193 Martin, R., & Radu, D. (2009). Return migration: The experience of Eastern Europe. In Paper presented at the XXIV national conference of labour economics, Sassari (Italy), 24–25 September 2009. Massey, 1990, Social structure, household strategies and the cumulative causation of migration, Population Index, 56, 3, 10.2307/3644186 McCormick, 2001, Overseas work experience, savings, and entrepreneurship amongst return migrants to LDSs, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 48, 164, 10.1111/1467-9485.00192 Mesnard, 2004, Temporary migration and capital market imperfections, Oxford Economic Papers, 56, 242, 10.1093/oep/gpf042 Mohapatra, 2007, The rise of self-employment in rural China: Development or distress?, World Development, 35, 163, 10.1016/j.worlddev.2006.09.007 Monfardini, 2008, Testing exogeneity in the bivariate probit model: A Monte Carlo study, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 70, 271, 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2007.00486.x Murphy, 2002 National Bureau of Statistics of China. (2010). 2009 Report on migrant workers monitoring survey. <http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjfx/fxbg/t20100319_402628281.htm>. Paulson, 2004, Entrepreneurship and financial constraints in Thailand, Journal of Corporate Finance, 10, 229, 10.1016/S0929-1199(03)00056-7 Piracha, 2010, Return migration and occupational choice. Evidence from Albania, World Development, 38, 1141, 10.1016/j.worlddev.2009.12.015 Rees, 1986, An empirical analysis of self-employment in the UK, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 1, 95, 10.1002/jae.3950010107 Rozelle, 1999, Migration, remittances, and productivity in China, American Economic Review, 89, 287, 10.1257/aer.89.2.287 Schultz, 1980, Investment in entrepreneurial ability, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 82, 437, 10.2307/3439676 Schultz, 1990 Stark, 1985, The new economics of labor migration, The American Economic Review, 75, 173 Taylor, 2003, Migration and incomes in source communities: A new economics of migration perspective from China, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 52, 75, 10.1086/380135 Wahba, J., & Zenou, Y. (2009). Out of sight, out of mind: Migration, entrepreneurship and social capital. IZA Discussion Paper No. 4541. Wang, 2006, Success or failure: selectivity and reasons of return migration in Sichuan and Anhui, China, Environment and Planning A, 38, 939, 10.1068/a37428 Wilde, 2000, Identification of multiple equation probit models with endogeneous dummy regressors, Economics Letters, 69, 309, 10.1016/S0165-1765(00)00320-7 Woodruff, 2007, Migration networks and microenterprises in Mexico, Journal of Development Economics, 82, 509, 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2006.03.006 Wuwei County Government. (2007). Report on the enterprises establishment of return migrants in Wuwei County (in Chinese). Wuwei County Government. (2009). Report on the employment situation of rural migrants of Wuwei County (in Chinese). Zhang, 2006, Self-employment with Chinese characteristics: The forgotten engine of rural China’s growth, Contemporary Economic Policy, 24, 446, 10.1093/cep/byj034 Zhao, 1999, Labor migration and earnings differences: The case of rural China, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 47, 767, 10.1086/452431 Zhao, 1999, Leaving the countryside: Rural-to-urban migration decisions in China, The American Economic Review, 89, 281, 10.1257/aer.89.2.281 Zhao, 2002, Causes and consequences of return migration: Recent evidence from China, Journal of Comparative Economics, 30, 376, 10.1006/jcec.2002.1781 Zhu, 2002, The impact of income gaps on migration decisions in China, China Economic Review, 13, 213, 10.1016/S1043-951X(02)00074-3