Migration geographical scope and migrant self-employment: moderating role of social capital and market discrimination
研究从迁移地理范围视角，分析中国内部流动人口的自雇决策，发现跨省迁移者比跨市迁移者更可能自雇，而跨县迁移者自雇可能性更低，且社会资本与市场歧视起调节作用。
This study integrates migrant individuals and urban contexts into a unified framework to elucidate the mechanisms influencing self-employment decisions among China’s internal migrants from a migration geographical scope perspective. Results show inter-province migrants engage in self-employment more than inter-city migrants; inter-county migrants are less likely to do so. The moderating roles of individual social capital and urban market discrimination are partially validated. Bridging social capital enhances self-employment likelihood for inter-province migrants than inter-city migrants; bonding social capital shows no significant effect. Labour market discrimination strengthens entrepreneurial tendencies among inter-province (versus inter-city) and inter-city (versus inter-county) migrants, whereas credit market discrimination weakens this effect.