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The household registration system and social stratification in China: 1955–1996

Author(s) -

Xiaogang Wu,

Donald J. Treiman

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

demography

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.099

H-Index - 129

eISSN - 1533-7790

pISSN - 0070-3370

DOI - 10.1353/dem.2004.0010

Subject(s) - china , communism , differential (mechanical device) , demographic economics , social mobility , social stratification , geography , economic growth , sample (material) , population , business , socioeconomics , political science , demography , economics , sociology , archaeology , engineering , aerospace engineering , politics , law , chemistry , chromatography

The Chinese household registration system (hukou), which divides the population into "agricultural" and "nonagricultural" sectors, may be the most important determinant of differential privileges in state socialist China, determining access to good jobs, education for one's children, housing, health care, and even the right to move to a city. Transforming one's hukou status from rural to urban is a central aspect of upward social mobility. Using data from a 1996 national probability sample, we show that education and membership in the Chinese Communist Party are the main determinants of such mobility.

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