文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：THE REGULATION OF MIGRATION IN A TRANSITION ECONOMY: CHINA'S HUKOU SYSTEM

作者：Bao, Shuming[1,2];Bodvarsson, Oern B.[3,4];Hou, Jack W.[5,6];Zhao, Yaohui[4,7]

机构：[1]Univ Michigan, China Data Ctr, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA;[2]E China Univ Sci & Technol, Lab Urban & Reg Anal, Shanghai 200237, Peoples R China;[3]St Cloud State Univ, Dept Econ, Dept Management, St Cloud, MN 56301 USA;[4]Inst Study Lab IZA, Bonn, Germany;[5]Calif State Univ Long Beach, Dept Econ, Long Beach, CA 90840 USA;[6]Nankai Univ, Sch Econ, Tianjin 300071, Peoples R China;[7]Beijing Univ, China Ctr Econ Res, Beijing 100871, Peoples R China

年份：2011

卷号：29

期号：4

起止页码：564

外文期刊名：CONTEMPORARY ECONOMIC POLICY

收录：;WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:000295083600007)】；

语种：英文

摘要：Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Access to public schools, health services, low-cost housing, and attractive jobs by those who do not have local registration (Hukou) is often limited. Coincident with the deepening of economic reforms, Hukou has gradually been relaxed since the 1980s, contributing to a migration surge. In this study of interprovincial Chinese migration, we address two questions. First, what is a sensible way of incorporating Hukou into theoretical and empirical models of migration in China? Second, to what extent has Hukou influenced the scale and structure of migration? We incorporate two different measures of Hukou into a modified gravity model nuanced to fit the Chinese case: (1) the migrant's perceived probability of securing Hukou and (2) the perceived joint probability of securing Hukou and a job available only to a registered person. Our tests include a much wider variety of controls especially important for the Chinese case. Using census data for 1985-90, 1995-2000, and 2000-05, we find that migration is very sensitive to Hukou, with the greatest sensitivity occurring during the middle period. (JEL J61)