Urbanization economies - the effects on productivity and utility created endogenously by larger cities - are a … amongst these variables depends on the nature of the dominant urbanization economy (or diseconomy). This paper looks at the …

fixed effects and is robust to instrumenting urbanization. Provinceﾒs competition, urban amenities and dis-amenities, cost … capita account for 40 percent of the negative urbanization penalty. Our result cannot be explained by the presence of … markets, young entrepreneurs are able to reap-off the benefits of urbanization externalities: every 100,000-inhabitant …

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 …

under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-oriented BCC model to evaluate provincial … urbanization patterns and industrial development strategies should be adopted in different economic areas to enhance labor …

in the future. The urbanization strategy of the government will likely raise the number of migrants with limited hukou …