...Wenhao Zhai; Ling Ma Purpose This study examines the effect of employment in their home county on the subjective well-being of migrant workers, given the increasing share of migrant workers choosing employment in the home county in recent years. Design/methodology/approach We use China Family...

...Hongyu Ma; Yongmei Carol Zhang; Federico Guillermo Topolansky Barbe; Mark Stuart Purpose There is a pressing need for research on the difference in entrepreneurial performance influenced by the integration of migrant workers’ psychological capital and entrepreneurial opportunity identification...

...Lulu Huang; Conghui Jiao; Qiannan Liu Purpose Migrant workers play a vital role in the development of countries such as China. However, they often face greater barriers in entrepreneurship. Yet, few studies have focused on the effect of institutional factors on migrant workers' entrepreneurial...

...Hong Chen; Chien-Ping Chen; Wang Jin; Yangyang Wang; Lijian Qin Purpose This paper employs nationwide, large-scale field survey data to provide the first empirical evidence on the impact of human educational capital on the acquisition of health entitlement among Chinese migrant workers...

...Xiaofeng Li; Li Luo Purpose The purpose of this paper is to exam the relationship between migration patterns and migrant workers' consumption and study how to upgrade the consumption of migrant workers. Design/methodology/approach Based on survey data from 3,368 migrant workers in China...

... economies Migrant workers Income Agriculture China has an estimated 120 million internal migrants, 70 percent coming from rural areas (Omelaniuk, 2004). These migrants remit more than $14 billion annually to their families in rural areas (Business Week, 2000). This is a significant flow...