A Simple Model of the Chinese Hukou System and Some Ongoing Reforms
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Keywords
Chinese institutions; Discrimination; Hukou; Rural-Urban migration; Earnings inequality; Trade policy; Special economic zones; Urbanization;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- F1 - International Economics - - Trade
- J4 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets
- P2 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist and Transition Economies
- P3 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CNA-2016-02-12 (China)
- NEP-TRA-2016-02-12 (Transition Economics)
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