Self-employment in Urban China:Entrepreneurship or Disguised Unemployment?  

作　　者：Xinxin Ma Shi Li 

机构地区：[1]Faculty of Economics,Hosei University,Japan [2]Institute for Common Prosperity and Development,and Distinguished Professor,School of Public Affairs,Zhejiang University,China

出　　处：《China & World Economy》2022年第1期166-195,共30页中国与世界经济（英文版）

基　　金：supported financially by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science from the Ministry of Education,Culture,Sports,Sciences and Technology of Japan(KAKENHI:Nos.20H01512,20H01489).

摘　　要：To explore the mechanism of entry to the self-employed sector in urban China,this study tested two hypotheses:the entrepreneurship hypothesis and the disguised unemployment hypothesis,investigating the impact of mass entrepreneurship and innovation policies on business start-ups.Three main findings emerged.First,the entrepreneurship hypothesis was rejected for both local urban residents and migrants in 2013 but was supported for both groups in 2018.Second,the causality relationship between mass entrepreneurship and innovation policies and business starts-ups was not significant.Third,the results differed by group.The entrepreneurship hypothesis was supported for the younger generation of migrants in 2018 but was clearly rejected for the less educated,both in the local urban resident and migrant groups in 2013 and 2018.Robustness checks confirmed these conclusions.

关 键 词：China disguised unemployment ENTREPRENEURSHIP mass entrepreneurship and innovation policies SELF-EMPLOYMENT 

分 类 号：F24[经济管理—劳动经济]