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Rural labor absorption efficiency in urban areas under different urbanization patterns and industrial structures: The case of China
Liwen, Chen; Zeng, Xiangquan; Yumei, Yang - 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/10010282403
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Russian Cities in Transition : The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s
Stuart, Robert C.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
This paper analyses Russian city growth during the command and transition eras. Our main focus is on understanding the extent to which market forces are replacing command forces, and the resulting changes in Russian city growth patterns. We examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261899
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Forced off Farm? Labor Allocation Response to Land Requisition in Rural China
Ma, Shuang; 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/10011653368
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Wage work for women: the menstrual cycle and the power of water
Maimaiti, Yasheng; Siebert, William Stanley - 2010
in China. Controlling for village fixed effects, poor access to water is found to decrease the probability of wage work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276707
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Wage Work for Women: The Menstrual Cycle and the Power of Water
Maimaiti, Yasheng; Siebert, W. Stanley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
in China. Controlling for village fixed effects, poor access to water is found to decrease the probability of wage work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583492
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Jewish Occupational Selection : Education, Restrictions, or Minorities?
Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - 2004
This paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to explain the distinctive occupational selection of the Jewish people into urban, skilled occupations. We show that many Jews entered urban occupations in the eighth-ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261974
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From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History
Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - 2003
location. The model predicts that when urbanization expands (as it did in the Muslim Empire), Jews move to new cities due to … their comparative advantage in urban, skilled occupations. Furthermore, before urbanization a proportion of Jewish farmers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262232
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Fertility in Sub-Saharan African countries with consideration to health and poverty
Jeon, Yongil; Rhyu, Sang-Young; Shields, Michael P. - 2008
demographic transition as modified by Caldwell. Special attention is paid to the economic status of women, urbanization, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268528
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On amenities, natural advantage and agglomeration
Krupka, Douglas J. - 2008
production, or urbanization economies in consumption. On their own, none of these urban scale effects generate the observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268665
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Secondary Towns and Poverty Reduction: Refocusing the Urbanization Agenda
Christiaensen, Luc; Kanbur, Ravi - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653365