As China encourages urbanisation, a necessary process is the urbanisation of its people, granting local-urban hukou, or local citizenship, to migrant populations. But reforms encouraging are dependent on populations wanting become formal, registered urban residents. What demand for hukou? Based unique probabilistically-sampled contingent valuation survey over 900 migrants in Beijing and Changsh...

This study documented the experiences of Chinese rural-urban migrant children and their parents living in the host city of Chengdu, China. It was informed by previous studies but applied a theoretical lens cultural reproduction theory—to reveal deeper understanding of rural-urban migrant families’ lives in the city of Chengdu. Participants in this study were 10 families—10 migrant parents, 10 l...

This paper examines the effects that changes in the Chinese government’s methods of labor control have had on rural migrant workers in the Guangdong province. The situation of rural migrant workers in China resembles that of foreign migrant workers in other countries, because institutional barriers such as the hukou (household registration) system prevent rural migrants from becoming permanent ...

Recent research literature on migration in China has mainly focused on adult migrants. As more and more people participate in the migration process and as migrants expand the duration of their stays in cities, migrant children increasingly become part of the migration stream. The presence of large numbers of migrant children in cities, especially children without local hukou, creates major prob...

The household registration (hukou) system in China was studied using China's 1990 census 1% microdata and interprovincial migration studies. In doing this, the socioeconomic characteristics and geographical patterns of long-distance hukou and non-hukou migratory flows were compared before developing a framework of dual migration circuits. The framework uses a statistical model to evaluate mig...

Abstract Economic institutions that impede factor mobility become more costly when an economy experiences substantial transitions such as trade liberalization. I study how triggers changes in labor regulate internal migration the context of China's Hukou system. Using a newly-collected dataset on prefecture-level policies, document increase pro-migrant regulations following WTO entry and estima...

In recent years, China has instituted a variety of reforms to its hukou system, an institution with the power to restrict population mobility and access to state-sponsored benefits for the majority of China’s rural population. A wave of newspaper stories published in late 2005 understood the latest round of reform initiatives to suggest that the hukou is set to be abolished, and that rural resi...

The magnitude of migrant workers reached 274 million in 2014. Since the social welfare system of China is locality-based depending on the household registration (hukou) system, migrant workers are excluded from the urban public health service system (1). They are especially vulnerable to three health threats: infectious diseases, maternal health, and occupational diseases and injuries (2). To p...

A previously undocumented association between city-level degree of hukou-based labor market discrimination and migrant’s individual entrepreneurship engagement is examined. Applying the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition analysis on micro data from China Migrants Dynamic Survey (CMDS) suggests that can average explain a 6.3% differential in personal income for rural migrants relative to otherwise ide...