Replication Package: Self-employment and Migration 1991-2018 - China, Egypt, Arab Rep., Indonesia, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Tanzania, United States

Abstract
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There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities so as to reduce migration. Self-employment is widespread in poor countries, and faced with a lack of existing jobs, providing more opportunities for people to start businesses is a key policy option. But empirical evidence to support this idea is slight, and economic theory offers several reasons why the self-employed may in fact be more likely to migrate.

The "Self-employment and Migration", World Development study conducted two sets of analysis: 1) It put together panel surveys from 8 countries to look descriptively at the relationship between self-employment and migration; 2) It re-analyzed 7 randomized experiments that increased self-employment to look at their impacts on migration.

Kind of data
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Sample survey data [ssd]

Mode of data collection
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Face-to-face [f2f]

Research instrument
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Derived data, see paper and readme document found under 'Documentation' for sources

摘要
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普遍存在一种政策观点，即国内就业机会的匮乏是移民的主要原因，同时提出需要增加投入以创造更多就业机会，从而减少移民现象。在贫穷国家，自雇现象普遍存在，面对现有工作的缺乏，为人们提供更多创业机会是关键的政策选择。然而，支持这一观点的实证证据寥寥无几，经济理论也提出了几个可能的原因，解释为何自雇者实际上可能更倾向于移民。

“自雇与移民”，世界发展研究项目进行了两套分析：1）它整合了8个国家的面板调查，以描述性方式研究自雇与移民之间的关系；2）它重新分析了7个增加自雇的随机实验，以考察其对移民的影响。

数据类型
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样本调查数据 [ssd]

数据收集方式
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面对面 [f2f]

研究工具
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派生数据，详见‘文档’下论文和readme文件中的来源。