data from China and an equilibrium quantitative framework that features the sorting of workers across locations and … covering rural land in China during the period …

China's fast economic growth over the past 40 years has been accompanied by an increasingly rapid rate of urbanization … generally believed to be a dominant driving force. Motivated by a recent finding of a high housing vacancy rate in urban China … important factor for the oversupply of residential housing units in China …

China, we find interesting interactions between fertility and migration decisions in various counterfactual experiments with …

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 …

combine to restrict workers' location decisions. Using an equilibrium sorting model and rich micro data from China, we … regional inequality by moving workers from unproductive inland regions to productive coastal regions in China; such welfare and …

Migration and pollution are two defining features of China's impressive growth performance over the last 30 years. In …

China's new Labor Contract Law took effect on January 2008 and required firms to give migrant workers written contracts …

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 …