The Hukou system's constraints on migrant workers' job mobility in Chinese cities

China Economic Review

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-64

  Zhang, Huafeng ^a  

^a Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies   (Norway)

Author keywords

Discrimination; Hukou system; Labour mobility; Migrant; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649234896     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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