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 …

Regional disparities in output per capita and income in China are large and persistent. They have been the subject of … mobility, internal migration subject to the hukou system of household registration and some features of the Chinese tax and …

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

We study urban Chinese employers' preferences between workers with and without a local residence permit (hukou) using …

This paper constructs a theoretical labor market model for China, and utilizes the model to examine the effects of … three sectors – state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, and agriculture – and China's unique household registration … system (hukou). The major existing theoretical models of employment and development – the Lewis model, the integrated labor …

economic incentives. They focus on China‟s decades old household registration system, or the hukou institution, which … indicate that making individuals' hukou status salient and public significantly reduces the performance of rural migrant …

. Categorization of a regulatory motive for applicant sorting in China is one contribution of this study. Statistical screening is …