Migration geographical scope and migrant self-employment: moderating role of social capital and market discrimination

Jiangbin Yin, Sainan Lin, Qianqian Zhang, Xinglong Kan, Xiaoyan Huang and Lei Jiang

Regional Studies, 2025, vol. 59, issue 1, 2514720

Abstract: This study integrates migrant individuals and urban contexts into a unified framework to elucidate the mechanisms influencing self-employment decisions among China’s internal migrants from a migration geographical scope perspective. Results show inter-province migrants engage in self-employment more than inter-city migrants; inter-county migrants are less likely to do so. The moderating roles of individual social capital and urban market discrimination are partially validated. Bridging social capital enhances self-employment likelihood for inter-province migrants than inter-city migrants; bonding social capital shows no significant effect. Labour market discrimination strengthens entrepreneurial tendencies among inter-province (versus inter-city) and inter-city (versus inter-county) migrants, whereas credit market discrimination weakens this effect.

Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2025.2514720

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