Hukou registration is an instrument to control nonplanned population and capital movements, which the Chinese Communist Party has been exploiting extensively since the 1950s. It requires that each Chinese citizen be classified as either an agricultural or nonagricultural hukou inheritor and be...

The article posits that the puzzles of stagnating poverty rates amidst high growth and declining unemployment in the United States can be substantially explained by polarized job markets characterized by job quality and job distribution. In recent decades, there has been an increased number of...

The article argues that the puzzles of stagnating poverty rates amidst high growth and declining unemployment in the US can be explained by bad quality jobs and polarization of the jobs market (JMP). JMP accounts for the distribution of jobs across households, where high JMP implies there are...