Robustness test: Effects of migrant workers' social capital on poverty level

Robustness test: Effects of migrant workers' social capital on poverty level

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Attention to and investigation of migrant workers’ poverty level in the COVID-19 environment are vital for understanding their living conditions. It is also critical to explore the effect of social capital and protection on migrant workers’ poverty alleviation in the post-COVID era. Using an online survey, this study examines the relationship betwe...

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... further test the robustness of the relationship between migrant workers' social capital and their poverty level, we use the entropy weighting method to calculate the value of SCI and use PCA to predict the value of the poverty level. Table 4 shows that migrant workers' social capital strongly inuences their poverty level regardless of the measurement for SCI or poverty level. This result offers a strong connection between social capital and poverty level. ...