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Quheng, Deng; Gustafsson, Bjorn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

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 …

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Do Employers Prefer Undocumented Workers? Evidence from China's Hukou System

Kuhn, Peter J.; Shen, Kailing - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study urban Chinese employers' preferences between workers with and without a local residence permit (hukou) using callback information from an Internet job board serving private sector employers. We find that employers prefer migrant workers to locals who are identically matched to the job's...

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Social Identity and Inequality: The Impact of China's Hukou System

Afridi, Farzana; Li, Sherry Xin; Ren, Yufei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

economic incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system which favors urban residents and discriminates …

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A Theoretical Model of the Chinese Labor Market

Fields, Gary S.; Song, Yang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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 …

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