China’s Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing … these restrictions for China’s internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First …, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on the basis of information on 264 of China’s prefecture cities …

This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in the rural-to-urban migration decision in China. We first … city. We then use a unique longitudinal data that allows us to test our model by focusing on first-time migration. Strong … the migration decision. Our results indicate that both weak and strong ties matter in the migration decision process …

Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population …

We evaluate the role that cities play on individual productivity in China. First, we show that location explains a … external markets does not. Therefore, large agglomeration economies prevail in China and they are more localised than in …. Overall, these results strongly support the productivity gains that can be expected from further migration and urbanisation in …

,capital-scarce and low productivity, countries, in order to explain key features of tax policies and inter- and intra-migration flows … migration flows, on the other hand, between rich and poor countries, within the union, and migration flows from the rest of the …

private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in urban areas from working for the state …