A Deep Analysis of the Chinese Hukou System: Facts, Impacts, and Reform Paths

By Yang Song

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9819935008
• ISBN13: 9789819935000
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"