A Deep Analysis of the Chinese Hukou System

ISBN-13: 9789819935000 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Yang Song

Opis

This book explores China's hukou system, by which individuals are registered in a specific geographic region, and the prospects for reform. The history of the hukou system and its instrumental role in Chinese urbanization and labor markets is explained, and readers get a sense of what issues are prioritized by Chinese policymakers as they contemplate reform or change to this system, from hukou-based labor market discrimination, inequality of opportunity, multi-dimensional poverty of rural migrants, the public health consequences of non-hukou migration, and old age insurance for migrants without hukous. The author concludes with a stirring and practical call for hukou reform, articulating a cost-benefit model and providing an array of policy suggestions. This book will interest scholars of Chinese society, demographics and future urbanization. 

Spis treści

 

Part I A Description of the Hukou System

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Facts of the Hukou System

 

Part II Impacts of the Hukou System

Chapter 3 Hukou-based Labor Market Discrimination

Chapter 4 Hukou-based Inequality of Opportunity

Chapter 5 Multi-dimensional Poverty of Rural Migrants

Chapter 6 Impact of the Hukou System on Health of Rural Migrants

Chapter 7 Impact of the Hukou System on Old-age Insurances of Rural Migrants

 Part III The Reform Paths of the Hukou System

Chapter 8 The Significances, Facts, and Difficulties of the Hukou Reform

Chapter 9 Costs and Benefits of the Hukou Reform

Chapter 10 Coordinated Reforms of the Hukou System and Land Policy

Chapter 11 Policy Suggestions of the Hukou Reform

O autorze

Yang Song is currently a Professor and Assistant Dean of School of Economics at Renmin University of China; he obtained a Ph. D degree in Economics from the Department of Economics at Cornell University in 2013. His research interest mainly lies in labor and development economics with a focus on income distribution and labor market issues in China. 

Blurb

This book explores China’s hukou system, by which individuals are registered in a specific geographic region, and the prospects for reform. The history of the hukou system and its instrumental role in Chinese urbanization and labor markets is explained, and readers get a sense of what issues are prioritized by Chinese policymakers as they contemplate reform or change to this system, from hukou- based labor market discrimination, inequality of opportunity, multi-dimensional poverty of rural migrants, the public health consequences of non-hukou migration, and old age insurance for migrants without hukous. The author concludes with a stirring and practical call for hukou reform, articulating a cost-benefit model and providing an array of policy suggestions. This book will interest scholars of Chinese society, demographics and future urbanization.

 

Yang Song is currently a Professor and Assistant Dean of School of Economics at Renmin University of China; he obtained a Ph.D degree in Economics from the Department of Economics at Cornell University in 2013. His research interest mainly lies in labor and development economics with a focus on income distribution and labor market issues in China.