THESIS
2013
v leaves, vi-x, 125 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
Abstract
This dissertation consists of three self-contained but related papers, which examine the policy
process of migration in the villages of origin, the selective socioeconomic mobility of rural-to-urban
migrants, and the social consequences of migration in urban destinations, respectively. The
first research identifies the harsh economic conditions, specifically, the predatory taxation in rural
China as a strong “pushing” force for the peasants’ migration, and demonstrates that the tax-for-fee
reform alleviates the rural households’ financial burdens and therefore slows down the Chinese
rural migration. The second essay demonstrates that the earnings premium of urban hukou is only
limited to a subgroup of rural-origin people who obtain their urban hukou status through a highly
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This dissertation consists of three self-contained but related papers, which examine the policy
process of migration in the villages of origin, the selective socioeconomic mobility of rural-to-urban
migrants, and the social consequences of migration in urban destinations, respectively. The
first research identifies the harsh economic conditions, specifically, the predatory taxation in rural
China as a strong “pushing” force for the peasants’ migration, and demonstrates that the tax-for-fee
reform alleviates the rural households’ financial burdens and therefore slows down the Chinese
rural migration. The second essay demonstrates that the earnings premium of urban hukou is only
limited to a subgroup of rural-origin people who obtain their urban hukou status through a highly
selective process, and furthermore, this earnings premium is positively associated with the
propensity of hukou conversion. The third paper discovers that the mistrust in urban China could
be attributed to the massive in-migration, and the fundamental mechanism underlying this negative
correlation between migration and trust, is however the lack of intergroup contact between in-migrants
and local residents. The three essays together reveal the dynamics of China’s massive
population migration process.
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