Tags : Hukou

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China’s mobility barriers and employment allocations
Abstract China's hukou system imposes two main barriers to population movements. Agricultural workers get land to cultivate but are unable to trade it in a frictionless market. Social transfers (education, health, etc.) are conditional on holding a local hukou. We show that the land policy leads to ...
https://iems.ust.hk/publications/iems-working-papers/ngai-china-s-mobility-barriers-and-employment-allocations
World Economic Forum: The Changing Face of China
IEMS Director Albert Park joined a panel of experts at the World Economic Forum’s discussion on the “Changing Face of China”, which included in-depth exploration of new demographic trends, norms, and policy priorities reshaping Chinese society. Specific topics included the impact of China’s new ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/media-coverage/2016/park-joins-world-economic-forums-discussion-on-changing-face-of-china
Changing Face of China - Expert Panel at Davos
IEMS Director Albert Park joined a panel of experts at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 at Davio to discuss the "Changing Face of China", which included in-depth exploration of new demographic trends, norms, and policy priorities reshaping Chinese society. Specific topics included the impact ...
https://iems.ust.hk/updates/iems-updates/2016/park-joins-expert-panel-at-the-world-economic-forum-davos-discussion-changing-face-of-china
Registration Status, Occupational Segregation, and Rural Migrants in Urban China
Abstract Xiaogang Wu examines the central role of occupation as the “reward packages” in creating earnings disparities between rural migrants and local workers in urban China’s labor markets. He analyses data from the population mini-census of China in 2005 which shows that, rural ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2015/xiaogang-wu-registration-status-occupational-segregation-and-rural-migrants-in-urban-china
2015: Is China Abolishing the Hukou System?
Abstract For more than two decades, journalists have been interpreting official statements on reforms of the hukou system as presaging an end to the system. The latest round of news in this genre have appeared in the last few weeks after China unveiled last March its long-awaited National New-type Urbanization Plan, ...
https://iems.ust.hk/events/academic-seminar/2015/kam-wing-chan-is-china-abolishing-the-hukou-system
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