the Department of Sociology,University of Cambridge.
This study scrutinizes the causes,configuration,and consequences of rural migrants’motivations for becoming self-employed.It aims to solve two main problems in the current literature.The first is that previous studie...
Changes in the employment structure in rural China were studied with a focus on off-farm self-employment.Data from the Chinese Household Income Project surveys were used,covering the same 14 provinces from 1988 to 201...
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).
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 ...
The term "gender equality" describes the equal valuing of the different characters assumed by male and female. At present in Northern part of Sri Lanka, there is huge improvement in the field of hospitality. Nowaday...
The authors acknowledge the financial support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 71373255 and 71333013), the Institute for Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2012RC 102; 2012ZD208;KSZD-EW-Z-021 - 1; Y02015004).
The goal of the present paper is to examine how the expansion of the economy from 2000 has affected rural off-farm labor market participation. Specifically, we seek to determine whether off-farm labor increased after ...
The large number of Chinese college graduates this year will once again face a fierce battle as they compete for a strained supply of jobs, a battle that has become an annual event as the academic year comes to a close.
financed by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.71003005,71133003 and 71373002)
Using the 2006 wave of the Chinese General Social Survey, the present paper examines the effect of risk attitudes on the likelihood of entrepreneurship in China. Our results show that risk attitudes have a nonlinear e...
The focus of this paper is to investigate the role self-employment conceptualized as a lifestyle factor on health, access to health care, and health behaviors. We analyze rich data on 13,435 working adults in the US, ...
Bangladesh economy has experienced some stable growths with regard to major macroeconomic indicators, significant progress in social development indicators, rural infrastructure, investment in industrial agricultural ...
This paper attempts to explore the current nature of rural labor in Albania into formal and informal sectors, and also to trace its transformation through time in period of transition from socialist economy to market ...