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Relaxing Migration Constraints for Rural Households
Kinnan, Cynthia - 2015
This paper exploits two unique features of China's history to study the effects of access to internal migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019871
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How Migration Restrictions Limit Agglomeration and Productivity in China
Au, Chun-Chung; Henderson, J. Vernon - 2021
China strongly restricts rural-rural, urban-urban, and rural-urban migration. The result which this paper documents is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232886
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The Impact of Migration Controls on Urban Fiscal Policies and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital in China
Sieg, Holger; Yoon, Chamna; Zhang, Jipeng - 2022
services as city residents in China. We estimate a spatial overlapping generations model with heterogeneous households to … that offer the potential of decreasing the inequality within China while at the same time increasing the overall level of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013289318
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Rural-Urban Migration and House Prices in China
Garriga, Carlos; Hedlund, Aaron; Tang, Yang; Wang, Ping - 2022
This paper uses a dynamic competitive spatial equilibrium framework to evaluate the contribution of rural-urban migration induced by structural transformation to the behavior of Chinese housing markets. In the model, technological progress drives workers facing heterogeneous mobility costs to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014091111
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To Stay or to Migrate? When Becker Meets Harris-Todaro
Liao, Pei-Ju; Wang, Ping; Wang, Yin-Chi; Yip, Chong - 2022
China, we find interesting interactions between fertility and migration decisions in various counterfactual experiments with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242309
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Heterogeneity in Long Term Health Outcomes of Migrants within Italy
Atella, Vincenzo - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076187
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The Impact of Global Warming on Rural-Urban Migrations : Evidence from Global Big Data
Peri, Giovanni - 2019
This paper examines the impact of temperature changes on rural-urban migration using a 56km×56km grid cell level dataset covering the whole world at 10-year frequency during the period 1970-2000. We find that rising temperatures reduce rural-urban migration in poor countries and increase such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889051
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Educational Choice, Rural-Urban Migration and Economic Development
Liao, Pei-Ju - 2017
model to fit the data from China over the period from 1980 to 2007, a developing economy featuring not only large migration …. Furthermore, the increase in college admission selectivity for rural students plays a crucial but negative role in China …
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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Inequality Change in China and (Hukou) Labour Mobility Restrictions
Whalley, John; Zhang, Shunming - 2021
We analyze the Hukou system of permanent registration in China which many believe has supported growing relative … regions and cities. Our aim is to inject economic modelling into the debate on sources of inequality in China which thus far … geographical divides in China is supported solely by quantity based migration restrictions (urban -- rural areas, rich -- poor …
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