A numerical simulation analysis of (Hukou) labour mobility restrictions in China

Whalley, John; Zhang, Shunming

doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2006.08.003

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“…Lu and Song (2006) find that local urban workers earn substantially higher hourly wage than those without local urban hukou. Whalley and Zhang (2007) show that removing hukou barriers to domestic labor mobility will significantly reduce inequality and increase economic efficiency gains.…”

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Social identity and inequality: The impact of China's hukou system

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“…Hence, the current literature almost entirely focuses on restricted labor mobility and discrimination in resource allocation in the hukou system to explain rural-urban and intra-urban economic inequality (Liu, 2005;Lu and Song, 2006;Whalley and Zhang, 2007). …”

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Social identity and inequality: The impact of China's hukou system

Afridi

Ren

2015

Journal of Public Economics

335

187

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“…These results suggest that the Beijing respondents perceived the labor availability as a decision criterion, as they experience a lack of young and qualified labors. Especially for the rural areas around mega-cities like Beijing, along with the growing urbanization, an increasing number of rural labors have moved into cities to work as migrants so a majority of stay-at-home labors are often elderly and infirm [40,74]. In addition, the traditional cropping activities would cost more for labor relative to the forestry activities while not earning equal incomes [71].…”

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Estimation of Rural Households’ Willingness to Accept Two PES Programs and Their Service Valuation in the Miyun Reservoir Catchment, China

Yang

Zhang

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Abstract:As the only surface water source for Beijing, the Miyun Reservoir and its catchment (MRC) are a focus for concern about the degradation of ecosystem services (ES) unless appropriate payments for ecosystem services (PES) are in place. This study used the contingent valuation method (CVM) to estimate the costs of two new PES programs, for agriculture and forestry, and to further calculate the economic value of ES in the MRC from the perspective of local rural households' willingness to accept (WTA). The results of Logit model including WTA and the variables of household and village indicate that the local socio-economic context has complex effects on the WTA of rural households. In particular, the bid amount, location and proportion of off-farm employment would have significant positive effects on the local WTA. In contrast, the insignificance of the PES participation variable suggests that previous PES program experiences may negatively impact subsequent program participation. The mean WTA payments for agriculture and forestry PES programs were estimated as 8531 and 8187 yuan/ha/year, respectively. These results consistently explain the differentiated opportunity costs on both farmland and forestry land. Meanwhile, the differentiated WTA values in Beijing vs. the surrounding Hebei Province follow the interest differences and development gaps between jurisdictions. Finally, the total economic value of ES in the MRC area was estimated at 11.1 billion yuan/year). The rational economic value of ES for the restoration priority areas reaches 515.2 million yuan/year. For the existing budget gap (299 million yuan/year), the study proposed that decision makers increase the water tariff by 0.08 yuan to raise the funds needed. The study also concluded that these results are not only financially and politically feasible but also cost-effective. This study has policy implications for improving the implementation efficiency and providing quantified supports for PES programs in megacity source water area.

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“…For example, land use and land cover [21,22], which is considered one of the more disturbing processes in urban development [23]. The transfer of labor from the agricultural sector to the industrial sector was also a popular topic [24][25][26]. Many papers also looked at urban populations, welfare distribution problems in urban transformation, and the urban transformation modes [27][28][29][30].…”

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An Integrated Approach to Modelling the Economy-Society-Ecology System in Urbanization Process

Liu

Luo

2014

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Urbanization has become a key part of social and economic progress in the 21st Century, but achieving healthy and safe urban development has a long way to go for many developed and developing countries. Urbanization has been recognized as a complex ecosystem which is affected by economic, social, and ecological factors. With this in mind, this paper looks at many factors to first evaluate based on the matter-element (ME) method and then model an Economy-Society-Ecology (ESE) subsystem using a hybrid method by a fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP), and then by using the entropy method (EM) to determine the relevant index weights. To avoid subjectivity when defining the model's boundaries, the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS) is introduced. Then, a coupling coordination degree model focusing on the degree of coordination in the ESE subsystem is established. Panel data collected from 2003 to 2012 for Chengdu, China, is then simulated to analyze the development process. The results show that: (1) The quality of urbanization continues to improve and the phasic features are presented; (2) The sensitivity analysis of subsystem weight shown that it had less effect on the coupling coordinated system; (3) The coordination in the ESE subsystem has also improved. However, the development rate of the economic subsystem is greater than that of the societal and ecological subsystem. The approach used here therefore, is shown to provide a promising basis for policy-making to support healthy urban development.

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A numerical simulation analysis of (Hukou) labour mobility restrictions in China

Cited by 152 publications

References 17 publications

Social identity and inequality: The impact of China's hukou system

Social identity and inequality: The impact of China's hukou system

Estimation of Rural Households’ Willingness to Accept Two PES Programs and Their Service Valuation in the Miyun Reservoir Catchment, China

An Integrated Approach to Modelling the Economy-Society-Ecology System in Urbanization Process

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