This article explains the current hukou system in China and provides the most recent
evidence on the impact of the hukou system on the Chinese labor market and economy. By …

Since 1958 the hukou (household registration) system has assigned Chinese citizens either
a rural or urban status. Some studies argue that the rural-to-urban migrants in China who do …

A previously undocumented association between city-level degree of hukou-based labor
market discrimination and migrant's individual entrepreneurship engagement is examined …

This paper utilises a 2008 survey on the wave of rural–urban migration in China to provide
new empirical evidence on labour market discrimination against rural-to-urban migrants with …

Developing Asia has achieved spectacular progress in reducing poverty. Between 1990 and
2010, Asia lifted 786 million people out of poverty, bringing down the headcount ratio to 20.8 …

This study examines the effect of the expansion in education that occurred in the first decade
of the twenty-first century on the returns to schooling in urban China for migrants and non …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore the determinants of self‐employment
among rural to urban migrants in China. Design/methodology/approach–The analysis is …

The present paper constructs a two-sector labor market model for China featuring
endogenous internal labor mobility and heterogeneous costs of migration induced by the …

We examine how entrepreneurship among migrants in urban China is affected by
household composition. Using microdata from the 2016 Chinese Labor-force Dynamics …

This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in
comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for …