Effects of hometown landholdings on rural migrants'entrepreneurship in urban China
With the advancement of the rural land system reform,the influence of the hometown land tenures and their related benefits on the behavioral decision and decision-making in urban society of the rural migrant population is becoming increasingly common.As an essential choice for the rural migrant population to work in the city,entrepreneurship is a behavioral decision concerning survival.Whether rural migrants'entrepreneurship in urban China is affected by hometown land tenures and their related benefits is a topic that needs to be studied.However,the previous literature has not identified the causality between rural lands and their related benefits and their entrepreneurial behavior in urban society.To bridge these research gaps,this paper first develops an analytic framework to understand how hometown landholdings may affect rural migrants'entrepreneurship in the destination city.Further,based on a large national micro-level dataset extracted from the 2017 China Migrants Dynamic Survey(CMDS),we empirically test the relationship between hometown landholdings and rural migrants'entrepreneurship in urban China by using multiple logistic regression model,Propensity value matching method,and intermediate effect model.The findings show that:(1)The hometown land tenures and their benefits have become a pre-existing resource that cannot be ignored to a certain extent and have complex and diverse impacts on the entrepreneurial behavior of rural migrants in urban society.Owning rural farmlands inhibits the employer-based entrepreneurship of the rural migrant population,but owning a homestead significantly increases two types of urban entrepreneurship of the rural migrant population,while owning a collective dividend from the village has no substantial impact.The increment of lower cultivated land income,land circulation,and village collective dividend promoted self-employment entrepreneurship,while the increment of higher cultivated land income,homestead,and village collective dividend stimulated employer-oriented entrepreneurship in urban society.(2)The mechanism test finds that land resources and their benefits affect the urban entrepreneurship of the rural migrant population by alleviating economic hardship in the countryside and helping to build confidence in coping with urban discrimination,thus prompting them to be self-employed or start their own business.The above findings explore a new channel to promote the rural migrant population to start a business in the city and also have a reference significance for protecting the land rights and interests of the rural migrant population and improving the quality of citizenization of the rural migrant population.
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