Technological diffusion, migration and entrepreneurship in China

Sihan Zhang, Leiju Qiu and Daxuan Zhao

Journal of Asian Economics, 2021, vol. 75, issue C

Abstract: In the past decades, China has been experiencing a huge mass of internal migration with rapid economic development. Using the 2005 Census data, our paper empirically explores how migration experiences affect entrepreneurship heterogeneously. The “falling” migration experiences, from a relatively developed place to a developing place, could enhance the human capital accumulation of migrant workers and assist them to become entrepreneurs. Moreover, we find that migrant entrepreneurs are more likely to engage in the industry with a comparative advantage in their original residential places. That is, technology diffuses with migration.

Keywords: Migration; Entrepreneurship; Technological diffusion; Human capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 O33 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.asieco.2021.101322

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