The Rise of Self-Employment in Rural China: Development or Distress?

By Sandeep Mohapatra, Scott Rozelle, R. Goodhue. 2007

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• Individual Determinants of Self-Employment Entry – What Do We Really Know? (2013, unknown): “…North America, and Australia) while both the emerging countries and the less developed ones are the focus of a far lower number of studies (see for instance, Pisani and Pagán, 2004; Djankov et al., 2005, 2006; Mohapatra et al., 2007; Lu and Tao, 2010; Bozzoli et al., 2013; Linghui and Hare, 2013).”
• Migration, local off-farm employment, and agricultural production efficiency: evidence from China (2015, unknown): “…efficiently utilize their inputs (Mochebelele and Winter-Nelson 2000). increasing importance of local off-farm activities for rural employment and income (Mohapatra et al. 2007; Zhang et al. 2006), the impact of local employment on agricultural productivity is largely overlooked in the literature.”
• Return migrants: The rise of new entrepreneurs in rural China (2010, background): “This finding is also in line with the comprehensive study on self-employment in rural China provided by Mohapatra et al. (2007), which gives support to the hypothesis that greater personal wealth eases the self-employment decision by relaxing financial constraints 37 .”
• Self-employment and intention of permanent urban settlement: Evidence from a survey of migrants in China’s four major urbanising areas (2015, background): “As self-employed migrants are usually more entrepreneurial, they are expected to take greater risks and thus to enjoy larger incomes (Evans and Jovanovic, 1989; Mohapatra et al., 2007).”
• Spatio-temporal pattern of China's rural development: A rurality index perspective (2015, background): “, 2013), rural industry and employment (Mohapatra et al., 2007; Shen andMa, 2005; Unger and Chan, 1999), rural associations and state corporatism (Unger, 2006), rural taxation and government regulation (Tao et al.”