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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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While city migrants see their welfare increase much more than those moving to towns, many more rural-urban migrants end up in towns. This phenomenon, documented in detail in Kagera, Tanzania, begs the question why migrants move to seemingly suboptimal destinations. Using an 18-year panel of...
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Using data from CHIPS 1995-2013, we find polarization of employment from middle-income Skilled jobs to work in the Unskilled and Self-Employment job categories. This redistribution of employment is consistent with the automation of routine noncognitive tasks in the skilled sector as analyzed in...
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Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate …
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income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese … China's IKC generates patents in China, but fewer than in major industrialized economies. Among domestically owned …
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We investigate the role of factor-priced-induced innovation in mediating the employment impact of expanding production … in China. Our empirical approach implements concepts developed in Acemoglu (2010) and complements the approaches … summarized by Wei, Xie, and Zhang (2017) that focus on directly observable aspects of innovation (R&D, patent activity, etc …
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productivity (TFP) growth in China. Our primary goal is to test Hicks' induced innovation hypothesis by examining whether technical … change in China has been induced by sharp increase in input prices that have accompanied its rapid economic growth. Utilizing … find that not only is wage-induced innovation significant and quantitatively important, but also that it substantially …
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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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In this paper, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate how well China's urban areas absorb migrant workers … under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-oriented BCC model to evaluate provincial … and regional rural labor absorption efficiency in mainland China. It appears that 4 out of 31 provinces and municipals are …
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-being. In this paper, we examine the link between weight, height and well-being for three distinct samples in China given that … attractiveness effects likely vary greatly across sociocultural contexts. As China has recently undergone rapid economic …
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