Author(s)

Erhong Zhang ¹, Xiaoyan Wu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ College of Humanities, Tianjin Agricultural University, Tianjin, 300384, China

Corresponding Author

Erhong Zhang

ABSTRACT

In the context of mass entrepreneurship and innovation, self-employment has become an important choice for migrant workers' employment. In the past five years, the proportion of migrant workers engaged in self-employment activities in China has remained around 40%. However, the quality of self-employment of migrant workers is poor. The article empirically tests the relationship between human capital, social capital, psychological capital, and the quality of self-employment of migrant workers. The results showed that human capital, social capital, and psychological capital have a significant positive impact on their employment quality, and the impact of social capital is greater than that of human capital and psychological capital.

KEYWORDS

Self-employment, migrant workers, human capital, social capital, psychological capital

CITE THIS PAPER

Erhong Zhang, Xiaoyan Wu, Research on Improving the Quality of Self-employment of Migrant Workers Based on Three-dimensional Capital. Journal of Human Resource Development (2023) Vol. 5: 42-48. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jhrd.2023.050105.

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