Return migrants: The rise of new entrepreneurs in rural China

329 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

Migration, entrepreneurship and development: critical questions (2017, background): “A number of studies have attempted to quantify the impact of labour market discrimination on the occupational choices of migrants in China, where legal discrimination, through for instance the Hukou system,5 is well known.”
Bringing It All Back Home – Return Migration and Fertility Choices (2015, background): “Return migrants can bring back home a stronger entrepreneurial attitude (Piracha and Vadean, 2010; Démurger and Xu, 2011), and the prospect to migrate reshapes the incentives to invest in education (Mountford, 1997; Stark, Helmenstein, and Prskawetz, 1997; Beine, Docquier, and Rapoport, 2001,…”
Do return migrants transfer political norms to their origin country? Evidence from Mali (2014, background): “Finally, Démurger and Xu (2011), using survey data on China, show that return migrants are more likely to be self-employed than non-migrants.”