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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9789819935031
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-981-99-3503-1
- Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore
- Erscheinungstermin: 28.06.2024
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 2023
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 406 g
- Seiten: 290
- Format (B x H x T): 148 x 210 x 17 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt