Relaxing Hukou - Increased Labor Mobility and China's Economic Geography
Abstract
China's Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing these restrictions for China's internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on the basis of information on 264 of China's prefecture cities over the period 1999-2005. Second, and by using our estimation results as input, we simulate...
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Relaxing Hukou - Increased Labor Mobility and China's Economic Geography
Published Date
Jan 1, 2010
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