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Le, Huong Thu; Booth, Alison L. - 2010

Using data from five waves of the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, we find evidence of significant urban-rural expenditure inequality. Urban-rural inequality in Vietnam increased dramatically from 1993 to 1998, and peaked in 2002 before reducing slightly in 2004, and significantly in...

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Inequality in Vietnamese Urban-Rural Living Standards, 1993-2006

Le, Huong Thu; Booth, Alison L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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An Empirical Survey of the Ramifications of a Green Economy

Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The unprecedented deterioration of our global environment has increased the necessity of relying upon Green Economic policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and debate among global interest groups. This has...

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An Empirical Survey of the Ramifications of a Green Economy

Heshmati, Almas - 2014

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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …

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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...

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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 …

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Urbanization, Natural Amenities, and Subjective Well-Being: Evidence from U.S. Counties

Winters, John V.; Li, Yu - 2015

This paper examines the effects of county-level urbanization and natural amenities on subjective well-being (SWB) in … important individual characteristics. The results suggest that urbanization lowers SWB, with relatively large negative effects …

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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...

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Entrepreneurship and market size: The case of young college graduates in Italy

Di Addario, Sabrina; Vuri, Daniela - 2010

fixed effects and is robust to instrumenting urbanization. Province'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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