By Zhiming Cheng, Mark Wang, Junhua Chen
This booklet goals to supply a scholarly account of modern understandings and reflections on many of the known and rising concerns in city and local China, equivalent to urbanization, inequality, hukou (household registration) reforms, hard work family, not-in-my-backyard protests and environmental governance. offering wealthy info research and case reports, those e-book chapters jointly make the most of multidisciplinary techniques and give a contribution to the empirical and theoretical literature in improvement studies.
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12 million as on Jan, 2011. 2 Y. Huang Hukou Policy in the 2nd-Tier Cities Provincial cities are less strict about hukou transfer than the elite cities. Some cities are even pioneering attempts to abolish the rural and urban hukou division, instead unifying them into a single category. Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei province, and Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan province, are such cities. Since the end of the 1990s, many cities have begun to extend their central districts. The main method was to expand the city to the peripheral areas and transfer the hukou status of the residents there accordingly.
The result of Model (2) shows that the coefficient of FDI is only significant at the 10 % significant level, and this apparent bias is indicated with the coefficients doubling in size. Importantly, the coefficient of trade is positive and significant at the 1 % level. The magnitude of this result is notable and suggests that trade worsened income inequality. Economic growth decreases income inequality at the 1 % significant level, which is also consistent with Model (1). Reform of state-owned enterprises worsened inequality at the 1 % significant level.