This article explains the current hukou system in China and provides the most recent
evidence on the impact of the hukou system on the Chinese labor market and economy. By …

Housing greatly influences the settlement of both internal and international migrants. Yet
previous studies have paid attention only to the role of homeownership. This study goes …

This paper empirically estimates the return to education using twins data that the authors
collected from urban China. Our ordinary least-squares estimate shows that one year of …

Since the reform and opening up in 1978, China has begun a period of rapid
industrialization and urbanization. Along with an increasing number of rural people …

This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the
expenditure behavior of families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural–Urban …

This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in rural-to-urban migration decisions in
China. We develop a network model that puts forward the different roles of weak and strong …

To contribute to a scarce literature, in particular for developing and emerging economies, we
study the nature of measured risk attitudes and their consequences for migration. We also …

Doing Research in Urban and Regional Planning provides a basic introduction to
methodology and methods in planning research. It brings together the methods most …

We hypothesize that individuals with a larger social-family network are more likely to choose
self-employment. We test this hypothesis using data on temporary rural–urban migrants in …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of
household income and poverty in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is …