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

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  • Xiaogang Wu

    (Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Institute for Emerging Market Studies, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

  • Zhuoni Zhang

    (Department of Applied Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong)

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.

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  • Xiaogang Wu & Zhuoni Zhang, 2015. "Wage Discrimination in Urban China: How Hukou Status Affects Migrant Pay," HKUST IEMS Thought Leadership Brief Series 2015-06, HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies, revised Mar 2015.
  • Handle: RePEc:hku:briefs:201506
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    Keywords

    Hukou; China; Chinese employment; Chinese rural migrants; Chinese residency status; Chinese socioeconomics; Hukou reform;
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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • J41 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Labor Contracts

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