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urbanization in middle-income countries such as Argentina, but it will slow down urban transition in poor countries like Malawi and …
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This paper explores the contribution of the structural transformation and urbanization process to China's housing …
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China's fast economic growth over the past 40 years has been accompanied by an increasingly rapid rate of urbanization …, but not to the change of night-time light. These results suggest that an inaccurate account of urbanization is an …
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This article examines the long term physical and mental health effects of internal migration focusing on a relatively unique migration experience from Southern and Northeastern regions of Italy to Northwestern regions and to the region around Rome concentrated over a relatively short period from...
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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 …
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During the period from 1880 to 1950, publicly managed retirement security programs became an important part of the social fabric in most advanced economies. In this paper we study the social, demographic and economic origins of social security. We describe a model economy in which demographics,...
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Should China build mega-cities or a network of linked middle-sized metropolises? Can Europe's mid-sized cities compete with global agglomeration by forging stronger inter-urban links? This paper examines these questions within a model of recombinant growth and endogenous local amenities. Three...
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This paper exploits two unique features of China's history to study the effects of access to internal migration: reforms to the household registration (hukou) system, and historical migration flows. We show that temporary migration due to a government policy called the “sent-down youth”...
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When people can self-insure via migration, they may have less need for informal risk sharing. At the same time, informal insurance may reduce the need to migrate. To understand the joint determination of migration and risk sharing I study a dynamic model of risk sharing with limited commitment...
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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...
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