TY - JOUR
T1 - The jobs-housing relationship and commuting in Guangzhou, China
T2 - Hukou and dual structure
AU - Li, Si Ming
AU - Liu, Yi
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support from General Research Fund (Grant No. HKBU 245511 ) of the Hong Kong Research Grant Council. The authors would like to thank Professor Liu Wangbao from the South China Normal University for helping with the questionnaire survey that forms the basic data source of this study.
PY - 2016/6
Y1 - 2016/6
N2 - Jobs-housing relations and commuting have been a concern of academics and policy makers alike. Various hypotheses from the West have been tested in leading Chinese metropolises, but so far no attention has been paid to the role of hukou, a rather unique Chinese institution causing the emergence of invisible walls within cities. To address this deficiency, the present paper places hukou at the forefront in its analysis of commuting in Guangzhou and reveals that in comparison with hukou holders, non-hukou residents tend to have more balanced jobs-housing relationship, rely less on motorized transport, and spend less time on commuting than hukou holders. Furthermore, some variables have influence on commuting time for one hukou type but not the other; some other variables that have influence on both groups differ systematically in their effects.
AB - Jobs-housing relations and commuting have been a concern of academics and policy makers alike. Various hypotheses from the West have been tested in leading Chinese metropolises, but so far no attention has been paid to the role of hukou, a rather unique Chinese institution causing the emergence of invisible walls within cities. To address this deficiency, the present paper places hukou at the forefront in its analysis of commuting in Guangzhou and reveals that in comparison with hukou holders, non-hukou residents tend to have more balanced jobs-housing relationship, rely less on motorized transport, and spend less time on commuting than hukou holders. Furthermore, some variables have influence on commuting time for one hukou type but not the other; some other variables that have influence on both groups differ systematically in their effects.
KW - Commuting
KW - Guangzhou
KW - Hukou
KW - Jobs-housing relations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84975842443&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2016.06.014
DO - 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2016.06.014
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84975842443
SN - 0966-6923
VL - 54
SP - 286
EP - 294
JO - Journal of Transport Geography
JF - Journal of Transport Geography
ER -
