Previous research on hukou-based stratification in China's urban labor market has either exclusively focused on inequalities between urban residents and rural migrants or neglected the segmented structure of urban economy. In this paper we analyze whether and how individuals' hukou status affects their labor market outcomes in urban China's segmented economy, by simultaneously examining the effects of two hukou characteristics--the type of registration and the place of registration. Based on a sample of the 2005 population mini-census in Shanghai, we have found that, in addition to urban-rural hukou divide, the distinction between local hukou and nonlocal hukou also plays an important role in determining workers' entry into different sectors, occupational attainment, and earnings. We also showed that industrial segmentation matters more than ownership segmentation in the process of hukou-based stratification.The hukou system has significantly shaped the pattern of social stratification in Chinese society. In prereform era, rural-urban divide was generalized as the most fundamental structure of inequality, both institutionally and geographically. Due to the relaxing of administrative control over population movement yet with an unchanged hukou system perse, post-reform China has witnessed an influx of migrants, either rural or urban hukou origin,

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