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We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large … be expected from further migration and urbanisation in China. …
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The path of urbanization around the world and in particular in China has been rapid. This study addresses measurement … China at the province level. Second a multidimensional index of the networking among the components is computed. The index … index is used to rank provinces in China by development of level of the networking among public infrastructure components …
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Shenyang, China. Through in-depth interviews with homeowners living in danwei communities, or urban villages, at the pre …
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cities have survived. We analyze a sample of nearly 300 prefectural-level cities in China, among which about half … historically had city walls. We document that cities that had walls in late imperial China have higher population and employment …
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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 … restructuring in China. It takes forced relocation to be a process with changing contents over time, and as a specific type of …
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Neoliberal politics in China have changed the roles of, and the interrelationships between, the state, the market and … stakeholders perceive and interact with each other in the state-led SRPs in Shenyang City in Northeast China. Through in …
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Limited access to safe transportation is one of the greatest challenges to labor force participation faced by women in developing countries. This paper quantifies the causal impacts of improved urban transport systems in women´s employment outcomes, looking at Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and...
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This paper analyzes a bike-sharing service from both network efficiency and demand profiles perspectives. Specifically, it focuses on the BIZI service in the city of Zaragoza (Spain), which was launched in May 2008 with the aim of increasing the use of the bicycle in the city. Since then, the...
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This paper discusses the transportation challenges that urban areas in Latin America and the Caribbean face and reviews the causal evidence on the impact brought by different urban transport system interventions implemented around the world. The objective is to highlight the main lessons learned...
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The city beautiful movement, which in the early 20th Century advocated city beautification as a way to improve the living conditions and civic virtues of the urban dweller, had languished by the Great Depression. Today, new urban economic theory and policymakers are coming to see the provision...
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