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报告题目：Linguistic Capital, Social Capital, and Self-Employment of Rural-Urban Migrants in China

报告专家：李建强教授

报告时间：2026年10月8日（周四）下午16：00

报告地点：湘江楼A926会议室

报告摘要：The entrepreneurship literature has focused on the communicative function of language, but has rarely examined linguistic capital’s effects on entrepreneurship, particularly that of dialect similarity. This research explores the role of dialect similarity in self-employment of rural-urban migrants and how social capital including networks and trust mediates the role of dialect similarity in a developing economy setting. Integrating the linguistic capital theory of French sociologist Bourdieu (2003) with the social capital theory, the study examines the decision of rural-urban migrants’ self-employment in China. Analyzing the dataset from the China Migrants Dynamic Survey (CMDS), we argue that rural-urban migrants who speak a dialect similar to the place of residence have a higher likelihood of engaging in self-employment, and that social capital plays a positive mediating role in self-employment decisions. We employ the Instrumental Variable and Propensity Score Matching method with a quasi-experimental approach for our empirical test. Results from both approaches strongly support our hypotheses. Lastly, research contributions and implications are discussed.。

专家简介：李建强，澳门城市大学金融学院教授, 博导。长期从事绿色金融、能源金融、可持续金融等领域。主持国家社会科学基金重点项目、省部级项目等一系列科研项目。曾入选“ScholarGPS全球前0.05%顶尖学者- Lifetime”、 “全球前2%顶尖科学家”、 “中国高被引学者”、“安子介国际贸易研究奖”、“高等教育国家级教学成果奖”等。在FT50 (ABS4*)等代表性权威期刊发表多篇学术论文, 在Web of Science上H指数96，累计被引用超过3万余次。先后担任Energy Economics、Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy、Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews、Applied Economics、Economic Analysis and Policy、Emerging Markets Finance and Trade、Singapore Economic Review等期刊的编辑及客座主编，以绿色金融, 能源转型, 可持续金融, 人工智能等为主题多次开设特刊。