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Green Cities? Urbanization, Trade and the Environment
Borck, Rainald - 2015
This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the environment. We focus on the potential of the unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016391
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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
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117200
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Walled Cities and Urban Density in China
Du, Rui - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906519
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Height, Weight and Well-Being for Rural, Urban and Migrant Workers in China
Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2015
-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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014005
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Understanding Chinese Consumption : The Impact of Hukou
Dreger, Christian - 2014
in the future. The urbanization strategy of the government will likely raise the number of migrants with limited hukou …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061666
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The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy
Becker, Sascha O. - 2011
Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens' trust in local public services. In several Eastern European countries, communities on both sides of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127917
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Stimulating Local Public Employment : Do General Grants Work?
Lundqvist, Heléne - 2010
The effectiveness of public funds in increasing public employment has long been a question on public and labor economists' minds. In most federal countries local governments employ large fractions of the working population, meaning that a tool for stimulating local public employment can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138257
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Fiscal Decentralisation, Local Institutions and Public Goods Provision : Evidence from Indonesia
Pal, Sarmistha - 2012
Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Surveys, this paper studies the impact of fiscal decentralisation in Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local institutions. Our results provide evidence of heterogeneity in access to public goods across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096145
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Meet the Press : How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit
Drago, Francesco - 2013
This paper evaluates the effects of changes in the supply of news provided by newspapers on electoral participation, political selection, and government efficiency. We address these issues in the Italian context by constructing a new dataset covering the presence of local news by different types...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087417
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Corrupting Learning : Evidence from Missing Federal Education Funds in Brazil
Ferraz, Claudio - 2013
This paper examines if money matters in education by looking at whether missing resources due to corruption affect student outcomes. We use data from the auditing of Brazil's local governments to construct objective measures of corruption involving educational block grants transferred from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013090778