economic incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system which favors urban residents and discriminates … against rural residents in resource allocation. Our results indicate that making individuals' hukou status salient and public …

evidence to conclude that such disadvantages are largely attributable to occupational segregation based on workers' hukou … (residency) status. Prof. Wu's findings carry important implications for hukou-related reform policies aimed at better …

Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off … so as public transport provision has not kept up. Demand for living space is set to continue to increase as living …

incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system, which favors urban residents and discriminates against … rural residents in resource allocation. Our results show that making individuals' hukou identity salient significantly …. However, the impact of hukou identity salience is insignificant in the tournament regime, suggesting that its negative effect …

China has witnessed the largest migration wave in human history, following the initiation of economic reforms in 1978 …

The rapid and massive increase of rural-to-urban migration in China has drawn attention to the welfare of migrant … differences in their status in the Chinese residential registration system (hukou) we find no earnings discrimination against …

social protection system in China and in the relative incomes of different groups in society. The collectively …

In China hukou (the household registration system) imposes barriers on permanent migration from rural to urban areas … counterparts left behind in rural China. The probability of becoming a permanent migrant is positively related to parental …-born counterparts and those who receive a hukou before age 25 typically earn at least as much as their urban-born counterparts. The …

In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been …