Historical Evolution, Present Situation and Problems of the Hukou System -- Hukou Liberalization Metrics and Influencing Factors -- Hukou System Reform and Residents' Economic Behavior -- Thoughts on Promoting Hukou Reform in Large Cities -- Urban Development in the Context of Hukou System...

Using national representative samples from population census and mini-census of China, this paper documents important employment dynamics in China from 1990 to 2015. The share of routine manual jobs decreased significant from 57% to 32%; both the share of routine cognitive jobs and the share of...