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data from China and an equilibrium quantitative framework that features the sorting of workers across locations and … covering rural land in China during the period …
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China's fast economic growth over the past 40 years has been accompanied by an increasingly rapid rate of urbanization … generally believed to be a dominant driving force. Motivated by a recent finding of a high housing vacancy rate in urban China … important factor for the oversupply of residential housing units in China …
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China, we find interesting interactions between fertility and migration decisions in various counterfactual experiments with …
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We analyze the Hukou system of permanent registration in China which many believe has supported growing relative … regions and cities. Our aim is to inject economic modelling into the debate on sources of inequality in China which thus far … geographical divides in China is supported solely by quantity based migration restrictions (urban -- rural areas, rich -- poor …
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services as city residents in China. We estimate a spatial overlapping generations model with heterogeneous households to … that offer the potential of decreasing the inequality within China while at the same time increasing the overall level of …
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When people can self-insure via migration, they may have less need for informal risk sharing. At the same time, informal insurance may reduce the need to migrate. To understand the joint determination of migration and risk sharing I study a dynamic model of risk sharing with limited commitment...
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We study the labor markets in China and the United States, the two largest economies in the world, by examining the … U.S., but decreased sharply from 55 to around 35 in China; second, the age-specific earnings grew drastically in China … similar in the U.S., but differed substantially in China. We propose and empirically implement a decomposition framework to …
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We estimate the aggregate productivity gains from reducing barriers to internal labor migration in Indonesia, accounting for worker selection and spatial differences in human capital. We distinguish between movement costs, which mean workers will only move if they expect higher wages, and...
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The introduction of new technologies in agriculture can foster structural transformation by freeing workers who find occupation in other sectors. The traditional view is that this reallocation of workers towards manufacturing can lead to industrial development. However, when workers moving to...
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Introduction /Petra Moser --The roots of agricultural innovation : patent evidence of knowledge spillovers /Matthew Clancy, Paul Hesiey, Yongjie Ji, GianCarlo Moschini --Comment /Alberto Galasso --Quantifying heterogeneous returns to genetic selection : evidence from Wisconsin dairies /Jared...
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