CITY-LEVEL HUKOU-BASED LABOR MARKET DISCRIMINATION AND MIGRANT ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN CHINA

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 micro data from China Migrants Dynamic Survey (CMDS) suggests that can average explain a 6.3% differential in personal income for rural migrants relative to otherwise identical urban migrants. one standard deviation increase city’s associated with roughly 2.9 percentage point higher rate among migrants, holding other things equal. Furthermore, much propensity necessitybased compared opportunity-based entrepreneurship. Our empirical work also hukou migrant more prominent people middle level education, young people, married renters. Policy implications these findings are discussed.