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Educational Choice, Rural-Urban Migration and Economic Development
Liao, Pei-Ju - 2017
opposed to work-based migration, for economic development, urbanization and city workforce composition. We then calibrate our … college graduates and the relaxation of the work-based migration have limited effects on economic development and urbanization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945602
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The Welfare Effects of Encouraging Rural-Urban Migration
Lagakos, David - 2018
This paper studies the welfare effects of encouraging rural-urban migration in the developing world. To do so, we build a dynamic incomplete-markets model of migration in which heterogenous agents face seasonal income fluctuations, stochastic income shocks, and disutility of migration that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930352
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Peer Migration in China
Chen, Yuyu - 2010
We aim to quantify the role of social networks in job-related migration. With over 130 million rural labors migrating to the city each year, China is experiencing the largest internal migration in the human history. Using instrumental variables in the 2006 China Agricultural Census, we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148663
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Rural-Urban Migration and House Prices in China
Garriga, Carlos; Hedlund, Aaron; Tang, Yang; Wang, Ping - 2022
then used to evaluate how changes to city migration policies and land supply regulations affect the speed of urbanization … uniform would promote urbanization but also would contribute to larger house price dispersion …
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The Impact of Global Warming on Rural-Urban Migrations : Evidence from Global Big Data
Peri, Giovanni - 2019
urbanization in middle-income countries such as Argentina, but it will slow down urban transition in poor countries like Malawi and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889051
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Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence from the Black Migration
Boustan, Leah Platt - 2010
Residential segregation by jurisdiction generates disparities in public services and education. The distinctive American pattern - in which blacks live in cities and whites in suburbs - was enhanced by a large black migration from the rural South. I show that whites responded to this black...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759755
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Globalization and Inequality : Evidence from within China
Wei, Shang-Jin; Wu, Yi - 2021
In this paper, we provide a case study of the impact of globalization on income inequality using data across Chinese regions. The literature on cross-country studies has been criticized because differences in legal systems and other institutions across countries are difficult to control for, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013219685
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Urbanization in the United States, 1800-2000
Boustan, Leah Platt - 2013
This handbook chapter seeks to document the economic forces that led the US to become an urban nation over its two hundred year history. We show that the urban wage premium in the US was remarkably stable over the past two centuries, ranging between 15 and 40 percent, while the rent premium was...
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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth : An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2014
Measures of entrepreneurship, such as average establishment size and the prevalence of start-ups, correlate strongly with employment growth across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near...
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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014
This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal … urbanization has slowed down, the localized importance of education and infrastructure have not. Our results suggest that districts … with better education and infrastructure have experienced a faster pace of urbanization, although higher urban-rural cost …
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