Impact of Household Registration System Reform on Rural Migrant Labor Employment

Abstract

In recent years, the reform of the household registration system aimed at promoting social fairness and justice has aroused strong repercussions in the whole society. Although the new household registration system has played a positive role in breaking urban-rural divisions, eliminating barriers to urban-rural labor mobility, and reducing discrimination in the labor market, this role is also very limited. This paper studies the limitations of the household registration system reform, labor market level restrictions, human capital differences and social capital differences, and finds that the household registration system reform can’t achieve the desired results at promotes rural migrant labor employment, narrows the welfare gap between urban and rural areas. Based on this, this paper proposes policy recommendations to further improve the household registration reform system and improve the employment status of rural migrant labor.