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The preference for larger cities in China : evidence from rural-urban migrants
Xing, Chunbing; Zhang, Junfu - 2013
China has long aimed to restrict population growth in large cities but encourages growth in small and medium-sized cities. At the same time, various government policies favor large cities. We conjecture that larger cities in China have more urban amenities and a better quality of life. We thus...
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Comparative advantage and agglomeration of economic activity
Pflüger, Michael; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016
key insight that emerges is that the interaction between agglomeration economies and comparative advantage involves a … comparative advantage in sectors governed by this force whilst the impact of agglomeration economies is enhanced by trade cost … small economies is not only shaped by the primitives that determine agglomeration economies and comparative advantage but …
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The pan-European population distribution across consistently defined functional urban areas
Schmidheiny, Kurt; Südekum, Jens - 2015
We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are "too small" to follow Zipf's law.
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More pensioners, less income inequality? : the impact of changing age composition on inequality in big cities and elsewhere
Alimi, Omoniyi B.; Maré, Dave C.; Poot, Jacques - 2017
As is the case in most developed countries, the population of New Zealand is ageing numerically and structurally. Population ageing can have important effects on the distribution of personal income within and between urban areas. The age structure of the population may affect the distribution of...
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International migration and the distribution of income in New Zealand metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas
Alimi, Omoniyi B.; Maré, David Christopher; Poot, Jacques - 2018
Since the 1980s, income inequality in New Zealand has been a growing concern - particularly in metropolitan areas. At the same time, the encouragement of permanent and temporary immigration has led to the foreign-born accounting for a growing share of the population; this is disproportionally so...
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Inequality, reordering and divergent growth : processes of neighbourhood change in dutch cities
Modai-Snir, Tal; Ham, Maarten van - 2018
The socio-economic mosaic of urban neighbourhoods changes under the influence of three distinctive distributional processes: reordering of the socio-economic position of urban neighbourhoods; changing levels of inequality between neighbourhoods; and an overall growth or decline in income levels...
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Optimal spatial taxation : are big cities too small?
Eeckhout, Jan; Guner, Nezih - 2015
We analyze the role of optimal income taxation across different local labor markets. Should labor in large cities be taxed differently than in small cities? We find that a planner who needs to raise revenue and is constrained by free mobility of labor across cities does not choose equal taxes...
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City size, family migration, and gender wage gap : evidence from rural-urban migrants in China
Xing, Chunbing; Yuan, Xiaoyan; Zhang, Junfu - 2022
Finding suitable employment in a city is more challenging for married than unmarried migrants. This paper provides empirical evidence that the denser and more diversified labor markets in large cities help alleviate the colocation problem of married couples. Using data from China, we show that...
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The puzzling fixity of multiple job holding across regions and labor markets
Hirsch, Barry T.; Husain, Muhammad M.; Winters, John V. - 2016
Multiple job holding rates differ substantially across U.S. regions, states, and metropolitan areas. Rates decrease markedly with respect to labor market size. These patterns have been largely overlooked, despite being relatively fixed over (at least) the 1998-2014 period. This paper explores...
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City size, pollution and emission policies
Pflüger, Michael - 2018
This paper develops a micro-founded city systems model with an endogenous number of cities to explore whether local governments establish the optimal city size when production processes involve environmental pollution. Our analysis delivers two key insights. First, if an optimal scheme to...
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