Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58980 
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Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6521
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in the country's market transition. I show that the 1980s' Household Responsibility System (HRS), which brought family farming back from the communal system, endowed rural households not only with land use rights, but also with de facto labor allocation rights. These shifts in property relations promoted a growth in agricultural market size as well as the emergence of intraprovincial non-hukou rural-urban migration, which may have made labor retention policies such as the small township strategy ineffective, and may have given the government an incentive to deregulate its subsequent labor market policy.
Subjects: 
rural-urban migration
labor mobility
undocumented labor
institutional change
JEL: 
J43
J61
R23
R52
R58
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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