AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF HUMAN CAPITAL AND SELF-EMPLOYMENT IN CHINA BASE ON FIXED-EFFECT MODEL

Xi Chen ； Wenjue Zhu ； Xiaoyong Wen ； Kai Liu

《IETI Transactions on Economics and Management》 4卷3期 (2022/12) Pp. 1-21

https://doi.org/10.6897/IETITEM.202212_4(3).0001

摘要

This paper investigates the mechanisms that human capital influences the self-employment decisions of rural-urban migrants and urban local labors in China. Using data from the China health and nutrition survey from 1989 to 2015, the results based on characteristic analysis and fixed-effect models indicate the following: (1) the income and work time of wage work of urban local labors are better than those of rural-urban migrants; (2) the self-employed with employees is the less possible choice for highly educated rural-urban migrants due to the high risk and insufficient social security; (3) the solo-self-employed is the less possible choice for highly educated urban local labors because of low-income and long time working. These findings may be attributed to unfair employment opportunities, unequal social security, and employment discrimination between rural-urban migrants and urban local labors in China's urban areas. We suggest that increasing rural-urban migrants' nonagricultural employment skills training and vocational education and achieve wide and equal coverage of social security for rural-urban migrants in urban areas.

關鍵字

human capital ； Education ； Self-employment ； Rural-urban migrant ； Urban local labor