abstract: 'A previously undocumented association between city-level degree of

  hukou-based labor market discrimination and migrant''s individual

  entrepreneurship engagement is examined. Applying the Oaxaca-Blinder

  decomposition analysis on the micro data from the China Migrants Dynamic

  Survey (CMDS) suggests that hukou-based labor market discrimination can

  on average explain a 6.3\% differential in personal income for rural

  migrants relative to otherwise identical urban migrants. A one standard

  deviation increase in a city''s average hukou-based labor market

  discrimination is associated with roughly 2.9 percentage point higher of

  entrepreneurship rate among rural migrants, holding other things equal.

  Furthermore, city-level hukou-based labor market discrimination is

  associated with much higher propensity for engagement in necessity-based

  entrepreneurship compared with opportunity-based entrepreneurship. Our

  empirical work also suggests that the association between city-level

  hukou discrimination and migrant entrepreneurship is more prominent for

  people with middle level of education, young people, married people, and

  renters. Policy implications of these findings are discussed.'
affiliation: 'Hu, MZ (Corresponding Author), Zhejiang Univ Technol, Sch Management,
  Hangzhou 310014, Zhejiang, Peoples R China.

  Hu, MZ (Corresponding Author), Zhejiang Univ Technol, Chinese Acad Housing \& Real
  Estate, Hangzhou 310014, Zhejiang, Peoples R China.

  Chen, Jie, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Sch Int \& Publ Affairs, Shanghai 200240, Peoples
  R China.

  Chen, Jie, Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, China Inst Urban Governance, Shanghai 200240,
  Peoples R China.

  Hu, Mingzhi, Zhejiang Univ Technol, Sch Management, Hangzhou 310014, Zhejiang, Peoples
  R China.

  Hu, Mingzhi, Zhejiang Univ Technol, Chinese Acad Housing \& Real Estate, Hangzhou
  310014, Zhejiang, Peoples R China.'
author: Chen, Jie and Hu, Mingzhi
author-email: hu\_mingzhi@outlook.com
author_list:
- family: Chen
  given: Jie
- family: Hu
  given: Mingzhi
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.3846/tede.2021.15006
eissn: 2029-4921
files: []
issn: 2029-4913
journal: TECHNOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMY
keywords: hukou discrimination; labor market; migrant entrepreneurship; China
keywords-plus: 'SELF-EMPLOYMENT; WAGE DIFFERENTIALS; GENDER DISCRIMINATION;

  ECONOMIC-DEVELOPMENT; URBAN RESIDENTS; RISK; REASONS; IMPACT;

  CONSTRAINTS; INEQUALITY'
language: English
number: '5'
number-of-cited-references: '66'
orcid-numbers: 'Chen, Jie/0000-0002-9254-4413

  Hu, Mingzhi/0000-0002-5377-5278'
pages: 1095-1118
papis_id: ea00a0c27a852d94da8d0c94eb766311
ref: Chen2021citylevelhukoubased
researcherid-numbers: 'Hu, Mingzhi/ABI-6974-2020

  Chen, Jie/D-5868-2018

  '
times-cited: '9'
title: CITY-LEVEL HUKOU-BASED LABOR MARKET DISCRIMINATION AND MIGRANT ENTREPRENEURSHIP
  IN CHINA
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000691263600006
usage-count-last-180-days: '3'
usage-count-since-2013: '40'
volume: '27'
web-of-science-categories: Economics
year: '2021'