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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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Industry churning and the evolution of cities: evidence for Germany
Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - 2007
In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkably well in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simple rank-size rule known as Zipf's law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is the churning of industries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268247
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City beautiful
Carlino, Gerald A.; Saiz, Albert - 2008
The city beautiful movement, which in the early 20th Century advocated city beautification as a way to improve the living conditions and civic virtues of the urban dweller, had languished by the Great Depression. Today, new urban economic theory and policymakers are coming to see the provision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269126
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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
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/10010282403
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Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance: Evidence from Mexico
Kumler, Todd J.; Verhoogen, Eric; Frias, Judith A. - 2013
investigation. We then compare two independent sources of individual-level wage information from Mexico - firms' wage reports to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329189
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The Effects of Enforcement on Illegal Markets: Evidence from Migrant Smuggling along the Southwestern Border
Gathmann, Christina - 2004
This paper analyzes how enforcement along the U.S.-Mexican border has affected the market for migrant smugglers. Using a unique dataset that links border crossing histories from illegal Mexican migrants to aggregate enforcement and punishment statistics, we find that the effect of enforcement on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261774
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Aid and Migration : An Analysis of the Impact of Progresa on the Timing and Size of Labour Migration
Angelucci, Manuela - 2004
This paper models the short and medium-run impact of aid on migration, considering alternatively the effect of unconditional and conditional cash transfers to financially constrained households. Data from the evaluation of a Mexican development program, Progresa, are used to estimate the effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261936
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Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico
Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur; Villagomez, Elizabeth - 2000
We analyze mobility in urban Mexico between three labor market states: working in the formal sector, working in the … market state of each individual during each time period. The data is drawn from Mexico ?s Urban Employment Survey, a … quarterly household survey for urban Mexico. Two separate five-wave panels are used: the first covering a period of rapid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262419
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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico
Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - 2000
Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 … educational attainment, (5) are increasingly likely to originate in southern Mexico and the Mexico City Metropolitan area, and (6 …) are increasingly likely to depart from urban areas within Mexico. Although we find no direct evidence that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262427
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Wage Differentials and Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico
Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur - 2001
We analyze wage differentials mobility between the formal and informal sector in urban Mexico, using panel data on five … quarters drawn from Mexico?s Urban Employment Survey. We develop a dynamic random effects panel data model. It consists of two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262535