... for the coming decade and beyond. Reform in existing household registration system is required to facilitate new skills formation for rural migrant workers combining reform in training and education system. Originality/value – Addressing human resource issues at a macro level, the paper analyses...

... information on the total number of workers employed in this mode and what forms of employment they take. Nevertheless, it is estimated that, by 2009, 30 per cent of the labour force, and two‐thirds of the 150 million rural migrant workers in urban areas were engaged in informal employment (Cai and Chan, 2009...