...Minghao Zhu; Zheyu Miao; Rong Kong; Zhe Chen; Ting Shao Purpose Ensuring rural migrants' access to sustainable income forms the foundation of urban integration. This study examines how China's household registration system reform (HRSR) affects the sustainable income of migrant households...

...Vardges Hovhannisyan; Serhat Asci Purpose We seek to quantify the relationship between urbanization and economic growth in China using recent advances in econometric techniques. Design/methodology/approach This study adopts a smoothed instrumental variables quantile regression (SIVQR...

...Qian Sun; Xiaoyun Li; Dil Bahadur Rahut Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of urbanicity on rural–urban migrants' dietary diversity and nutrition intake and whether its effect differs across various urban environments of migrants. Design/methodology/approach Using...

...Xiujuan Tian; Jiankun Hu; Caiping Zhang; Yang Zhao Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the housing behaviors of rural-urban migrant workers in China and the associated socioeconomic determinants. Design/methodology/approach The authors developed a model to empirically identify...

...Weiming Tian; Zhangyue Zhou; Zhao Chen; Xiaofeng Liu; Ming Lu Purpose This paper aims to answer the following questions concerning rural‐to‐urban labor migration in China: What is the impact of discrimination against non‐Hukou in urban public service provision? Will such discrimination disappear...

... consistent with that based on assets; factors enhancing the probability of a household entering the middle class include human capital, political capital and non‐farming employment while industrialization, urbanization and development of TVEs also play significant roles; and the middle class not only consume...