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...

BACKGROUND Recent trends show an unprecedented feminisation of migration in China, triggered by the increasing demand for cheap labour in big cities and the availability of women in the labour market. These trends corroborate the evidence that non-agricultural work and remittance from urban labour migrants have become the major sources of rural household income. OBJECTIVE This paper investigate...

The commentator suggests that it is necessary to extend the classical connotation of  global city which focuses much on the functions of controlling global capital and production. Global city should also include the dimensions of the leading role and capacity on health improvements and well-being promotion. The commentator agrees with authors’ assessments about Shanghai’s substantial progress o...

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...

BACKGROUND In China, there is a large migrant population. A significant proportion of children of the migrant population in China are not able to attend public schools due to the lack of local household registration (HuKou). They turn to privately-operated migrant schools, which are usually under-funded, have bad environmental facilities and are inadequately staffed compared to public schools. ...

This study compares the education status of migrant children in China and United States, with a specific focus on K–12 education. Migrant children, also known as moving from rural areas to urban areas, immigrant families face unique challenges both countries, including regional prejudice brought by Hukou policy racial social class inequality US. Using comparative approach, this examines similar...

China is experiencing an urban revolution, powered in part by hundreds of millions of migrant workers. Faced with institutionalised discrimination in the housing system and the lack of housing affordability, migrants have turned to virtually uninhabitable spaces such as basements and civil air defence shelters for housing. With hundreds of thousands of people living in crowded and dark basement...

Across China, the household registration (hukou) policy has restricted school admission of rural–urban migrant children in urban areas. In 2017, Nanjing government issued Tenants Have Same Right as Householders (THSRH) to allow tenants areas access public-school resources. However, what have experienced and after negotiating these schools deserves serious attention from educators, scholars poli...