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The Myth of Hukou: Re-examining Hukou’s Implications for China’s Development Model

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  • Ying Chen

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The hukou system is typically treated as an institutional base for rural-urban chasm in the literature regarding internal migration in China. However, these works rarely separate hukou’s social impacts from those caused by the changes in the economic system itself. With a review of historical policy documents, data on migration from rural to urban sectors, agricultural output and industrial output growth, I argue that hukou is in fact a rather neutral and passive legislation in the sense that it can perform opposite functions depending on the particular economic system it is operating under. This paper calls for bringing the concept of economic system back to the center of the discussion regarding development models. JEL Classification: O15, D63

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  • Ying Chen, 2019. "The Myth of Hukou: Re-examining Hukou’s Implications for China’s Development Model," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 51(2), pages 282-297, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:51:y:2019:i:2:p:282-297
    DOI: 10.1177/0486613418783885
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    Keywords

    household registration system; migration; inequality;
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    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement

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