Wage Discrimination in Urban China: How Hukou Status Affects Migrant Pay

Xiaogang Wu () and Zhuoni Zhang ()
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Xiaogang Wu: Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Zhuoni Zhang: Department of Applied Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong

No 2015-06, HKUST IEMS Thought Leadership Brief Series from HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Abstract: Prof. Xiaogang Wu, an HKUST Faculty Associate and Professor of Social Science at HKUST, investigates the earnings disadvantages faced by rural Chinese migrants in urban cities as compared to their local urban counterparts, and uses empirical evidence to conclude that such disadvantages are largely attributable to occupational segregation based on workers' hukou (residency) status. Prof. Wu's findings carry important implications for hukou-related reform policies aimed at better assimilating rural migrants into urban Chinese cities. These findings are particularly important now, as both the Chinese central government as well as local urban governments throughout the country scramble to fix the socioeconomic difficulties faced by the ever-growing influx of rural migrants to urban areas.

Keywords: Hukou; China; Chinese employment; Chinese rural migrants; Chinese residency status; Chinese socioeconomics; Hukou reform (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J31 J41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 4 pages
Date: 2015-03, Revised 2015-03
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