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Regional differences in self-employment in China

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This paper investigates the impact of personal characteristics and institutional environment on the decision to be self-employed in China. It is shown that a difference in the likelihood of being self-employed exists between urban and rural areas. Our results show that institutional differences between rural and urban areas influence self-employment decisions. Factors that exert a consistent impact regardless of the local institutional environment are marriage, education, money spent on weddings and gifts, economic openness, and accessibility of information. The impact of other factors differs across rural and urban areas. These factors include family ownership of real estate, experience, gender, population density, the management capacity of local government, and the development of private economy in the local community.

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Titel: Regional differences in self-employment in China
verfasst von: Bei Luo
Terence Tai-Leung Chong
Publikationsdatum: 07.05.2018
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Small Business Economics / Ausgabe 3/2019
Print ISSN: 0921-898X
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0913
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-018-0063-z

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