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Land Rights Insecurity and Temporary Migration in Rural China
de la Rupelle, Maëlys - 2010
Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking characteristic is a high geographical and temporal mobility. Rural migrants keep going back and forth between origin villages and destination areas. In this paper, we show that...
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Rural Labor Absorption Efficiency in Urban Areas Under Different Urbanization Patterns and Industrial Structures : The Case of China
Liwen, Chen - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117200
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Height, Weight and Well-Being for Rural, Urban and Migrant Workers in China
Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2015
In general, the happiness literature has paid little attention to the relationship between physical appearance and well-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...
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A Flexible Test for Present Bias and Time Preferences Using Land-Lease Contracts
Gautier, Pieter A. - 2011
When agents have present bias, they discount more between now and the next period than between period t ( 1) and t + 1. How fast the future discount rate (evaluated today) decays is an empirical question. We show that the discount function can be non-parametrically identified with contracts that...
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Land Use Rights, Market Transitions, and Labor Policy Change in China (1980-4)
Chen, Yiu Por - 2012
This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in the country's market transition. I show that the...
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Forced Off Farm? Labor Allocation Response to Land Requisition in Rural China
Mu, Ren - 2017
Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960251
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Checkerboards and Coase : Transactions Costs and Efficiency in Land Markets
Akee, Randall - 2021
The Coase theorem emphasizes the role transactions costs play in efficient market outcomes. We document inefficient outcomes, in the presence of a transactions cost, in southern California land markets and the corresponding transition to efficient outcomes after the transactions cost is...
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Entrepreneurship and Market Size : The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy
Di Addario, Sabrina Lucia - 2010
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 …
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Some Evidence on the Nature of Urbanization Economies
Krupka, Douglas J. - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039222
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Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction : Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda
Christiaensen, Luc - 2017
This review is framed around the exploration of a central hypothesis: A shift in public investment towards secondary towns from big cities will improve poverty reduction performance. Of course the hypothesis raises many questions. What exactly is the dichotomy of secondary towns versus big...
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