Using data from recent surveys of migrants and local residents in 10 cities in 2005, this paper examines how migration … influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for … measures of urban income inequality. Significant differences between migrants and local residents are found for non …

sector to the non-state sector in urban China as a quasi-experiment to analyze the intergenerational impact of social …

understood. Second, urban location may amplify firm-level processes, but almost no studies test these firm-area interactions. I …

Firms are more productive on average in larger cities. Two main explanations have been offered: firm selection (larger … cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the …

cities between 1970 and 1990. …

examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium and large cities for the period 1960 through 2002. We conclude that … unrestricted cities. This pattern seemingly came to an end in the late 1990s. …

largest US cities in the period 1990-2009. As a result of technological change some tasks can be placed at distance, while … proximity relative to others. Our results suggest that cities with higher shares of connected tasks experienced higher … the complementarity between skills and cities. …