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Understanding the experiences of relocatees during forced relocation in Chinese urban restructuring
Li, Xin; Ham, Maarten van; Kleinhans, Reinout - 2016
Despite the massive forced relocation of residents during urban restructuring in China, there are no systematic studies on how residents undergo the process. Most studies concerning urban restructuring in China directly equate forced relocation with displacement, which has a negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523166
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Spatial mismatch: from the hypothesis to the theories
Gobillon, Laurent (contributor); Selod, Harris (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001744062
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Labor market pooling, outsourcing and labor contracts
Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David E. - 2009
Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...
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Young women in cities
Koh, Yumi; Li, Jing; Wu, Yifan; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Hanzhe - 2023
Young women outnumber young men in cities in many countries during periods of economic growth and urbanization. This … cities when urbanization creates more economic opportunities and an abundance of high-income marriage-age men. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014325137
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How urbanization affects employment and social interactions
Satō, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - 2014
ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also demonstrate that, for a low urbanization level, there is a unique steady …-state equilibrium where workers do not interact with weak ties, while, for a high level of urbanization, there is a unique steady … when social interactions are optimal, we show that there is over-urbanization in equilibrium. …
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Employment impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic across metropolitan status and size
Cho, Seung Jin; Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2020
We examine effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment losses across metropolitan area status and population size. Non-metropolitan and metropolitan areas of all sizes experienced significant employment losses, but the impacts are much larger in large metropolitan areas. Employment losses...
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No room to live : urban overcrowding in Edwardian Britain
Gazeley, Ian; Newell, Andrew - 2009
We study the extent of overcrowding amongst British urban working families in the early 1900s and find major regional differences. In particular, a much greater proportion of households in urban Scotland were overcrowded than in the rest of Britain and Ireland. We investigate the causes of this...
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Migration and urban poverty and inequality in China
Park, Albert; Wang, Dewen - 2010
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 migrants and local residents. Contrary to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952874
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Growing out of poverty : trends and patterns of urban poverty in China 1988 - 2002
Appleton, Simon (contributor); Song, Lina (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period regardless of the exact location of the poverty line....
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Poverty in Britain in 1904 : an early social survey rediscovered
Gazeley, Ian (contributor); Newell, Andrew (contributor) - 2007
Until now there have been no national estimates of the extent of poverty in Britain at the turn of the 20th century. This paper introduces a newly-discovered household budget data set for the early 1900s. These data are more representative of urban working households in Britain in the period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003557352