Chinese migrants and their impact on homeland development

Wei, Yingqi; Liu, Xiaohui; Lu, Jiangyong; Yang, Jingjing

Chinese migrants and their impact on homeland development

journal contribution

posted on 2016-10-17, 14:05 authored by Yingqi Wei, Xiaohui Liu, Jiangyong Lu, Jingjing Yang

This paper aims to systematically examine the impact of Chinese migrants on the economic activities of indigenous Chinese firms from two dimensions: foreign direct investment (FDI) by ethnic Chinese (ECI) and returnees. Using a unique dataset for firms in Zhongguancun Science Park, Beijing, we carry out an in-depth empirical study on the effects of ECI and returnees on indigenous Chinese firms’ productivity, exports and R&D in comparison with the effects of non-ethnic Chinese FDI. The findings have important policy implications

Funding

Financial support from the Economic and Social Research Council (RES-238-25-0027) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (#71172020) is gratefully acknowledged.

History

School

Business and Economics

Department

Business

Published in

The World Economy

Citation

WEI, Y. ... et al., 2017. Chinese migrants and their impact on homeland development. The World Economy, 40(11), pp.2354-2377.

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons Ltd (© The Authors)

Version

VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Acceptance date

2016-09-25

Publication date

2017

Notes

This is an open access article published by Wiley and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/