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Re:Stanford paper says rent control is driving up cost of ho... by seanmcdirmid on Monday January 08, 2018 @05:32PM (#16101420)
China is a bad example with its hukou system in place. Sure you can migrate to the city for a better job but you have to leave your kids behind (no public school without hukou). Labor mobility but at great costs.
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Re:Stanford paper says rent control is driving up cost of ho... by adrianratnapala on Monday January 08, 2018 @07:59PM (#16102525)
China is a bad example of a place getting policy right to favour labour mobility.

It is an extreme example of a place where labour mobility is so valuable it happens in spite of restraints. In fact it is so extreme that it is hard to draw lessons for modern western countries (although it has obvious resemblances to urbanisation in Europe a few centuries ago).

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Re:Stanford paper says rent control is driving up cost of ho... by klipt on Monday January 08, 2018 @08:16PM (#16102616)
Seems comparable to immigration controls between countries.
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Re:Stanford paper says rent control is driving up cost of ho... by seanmcdirmid on Monday January 08, 2018 @08:53PM (#16102828)
It’s more comparable to the movement controls of apartheid.
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Re:Stanford paper says rent control is driving up cost of ho... by klipt on Monday January 08, 2018 @10:17PM (#16103311)
Arguably, immigration controls are also similar to the movement controls of Apartheid. They're just more socially acceptable because pretty much every country does it.
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Re:Stanford paper says rent control is driving up cost of ho... by seanmcdirmid on Monday January 08, 2018 @10:36PM (#16103404)
Sure. But discriminating on your own citizens based on where they were born (or where their parents were born in china’s case) is extra douchey.
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Re:Stanford paper says rent control is driving up cost of ho... by klipt on Thursday January 11, 2018 @05:12PM (#16128517)
I believe you can change Hukou after a few years so it's not strictly where they were born.

Many American state universities discriminate against students based on where their parents live (e.g. charging in-state vs out-of-state tuition).

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Re:Stanford paper says rent control is driving up cost of ho... by seanmcdirmid on Thursday January 11, 2018 @05:15PM (#16128543)
A. Yes but it’s very hard. You have to marry in it or be a grad from a good university in a good major.

B. Yes, but you easily get residence by living there for less than a year. Also,public K12 schools can’t discriminate like they do in china.

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