This paper uses a dynamic panel estimation method to investigate the determinants of regional specialization in China … time trend of regional specialization of China's industries is found to have reversed an early drop in the mid 1980s, and …

strength are strongly linked to higher business entry rates. Our results for China contrast with recent findings on the effects …

China's Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing … these restrictions for China's internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First …, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on the basis of information on 264 of China's prefecture cities …

workforce in cities in the People's Republic of China (PRC) along with its changes, and drew the following three conclusions …

workers are not able to take full advantage of the benefits from agglomeration economies. China is changing rapidly, however … institutional limitations in China against further agglomeration weaken, and that the consensus in the literature that "Chinese …The literature on China indicates that the concentration of economic activities in China is less than in other …

China's Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing … these restrictions for China's internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First …, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on the basis of information on 264 of China's prefecture cities …

distribution and fail to explain the political economy of urban agglomeration. As a major transitional economy, China's economic … decentralization, in conjunction with political control, portends a more complex environment for urban agglomeration and offers a new … wherein fiscal decentralization is negatively associated with urban agglomeration. Such phenomena can be attributed to the …

-driven entrepreneurship in China. We document strong positive entrepreneurial effects of local human capital resources and market size as well … agglomerations in China. We discuss policy implications that concern promotion of local innovation-driven entrepreneurship by …

. The latter arises from the infrastructure-agglomeration link and has been largely overlooked in the literature on … large-scale firm-level survey data from the People's Republic of China (PRC). Major findings include: (1) all the three …) they also exert a positive indirect effect on firm productivity through the agglomeration channel; and (3) the empirical …

This paper provides the first delineation of China’s commuting-based metropolitan areas (MAs) using a new source of … commuting flow data at fine geographic levels. We show that commutes in China are overwhelmingly short and largely confined by … an approximation of local labor markets in China while balancing practical considerations such as the comparability with …