The Chinese dream, a migrant’s nightmare?
(2020) EKHS42 20201Department of Economic History
- Abstract
- This thesis aims to uncover whether having a long-term or permanent contract improves the quality of employment of internal migrants in China. The focus lies specifically on the labour reforms in 2008, which will be analysed using a differences-in-differences approach. Though the results seem to point towards a positive direct effect of having such a contract, the laws seem to cause ambiguity. In particular, the effect of said regulations may differ due to regional
heterogeneity and the impact of the 2008 financial crisis. Whether labour reforms have improved the position of internal migrants is thus dependent on context and the political will to enact social progress.
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- author
- ten Hoeve, Youri LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- The impact of the Hukou system and labour reforms on the position of internal migrants in China
- course
- EKHS42 20201
- year
- 2020
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Internal migration, quality of employment, Hukou system, labour reform, China
- language
- English
- id
- 9020653
- date added to LUP
- 2020-07-03 12:27:50
- date last changed
- 2020-07-03 12:27:50
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