Education and labor market consequences of removal migration selectivity: evidence from the abolishment of rural/urban Hukou

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Education and labor market consequences of removal migration selectivity: evidence from the abolishment of rural/urban Hukou

ABSTRACT

Starting from 2002, China is removing the rural-urban selective migration scheme, the Hukou system. Exploiting the differences in the timing of the policy implementation across regions suggests that the Hukou reform leads to a 13.1 percentage points reduction in rural highschool enrollment rate and a 20.9 percentage points reduction in employment for the affected rural cohorts. Spillover effects to urban youth's educational achievement is small.

Presenter

Yao Pan
Aalto University School of Business

Research Fields

Development economics and labor economics

Date:

18 March 2015 (Wednesday)

Time:

4pm - 5.30pm

Venue:

Meeting Room 5.1, Level 5
School of Economics
Singapore Management University
90 Stamford Road
Singapore 178903