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Trade and Labor Market Dynamics : General Equilibrium Analysis of the China Trade Shock
Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2019
We develop a dynamic trade model with spatially distinct labor markets facing varying exposure to international trade. The model captures the role of labor mobility frictions, goods mobility frictions, geographic factors, and input-output linkages in determining equilibrium allocations. We show...
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Quality of Life in Chinese Cities
Shi, Tie; Zhu, Wenzhang; Fu, Shihe - 2021
The Rosen-Roback spatial equilibrium theory states that cross-city variations in wages and housing prices reflect urban residents’ willingness to pay for urban amenities or quality of life. This paper is the first to quantify and rank the quality of life in Chinese cities based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013241985
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From Rural Poverty to Urban Deprivation? The Plight of Chinese Rural-Urban Migrants Through the Lens of 'Last Train Home'
Li, Na - 2014
China's impressive growth has been accompanied by huge rural-urban divide and social sacrifice of many including rural-urban migrants. Reflecting on the documentary 'Last Train Home' (2009) by Lixin Fan, this paper identifies and examines the life of rural-urban migrants in China in terms of...
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The Welfare Implications of Internal Migration Restrictions : Evidence from China
Wu, Wenbin - 2020
What are the welfare implications of placing restrictions on internal migration? Given externalities in location choices, the answer is ambiguous. This paper empirically examines what is presumably the largest government intervention in internal migration in human history--the Hukou system in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829818
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Urban size and senior executive compensation : evidence from China
Zong, Jiafeng; Guo, Man; Zhou, Liang - In: Journal of urban management 8 (2019) 2, pp. 282-287
Relying on data of Chinese listed companies and city scale during 2005-2010, we document a positive relationship between the size and location of urban firms and total senior executive compensation. Tenure and corporate performance have a positive impact on the total senior executive...
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Delineating China’s Metropolitan Areas Using Commuting Flow Data
Chen, Ting; Gu, Yizhen; Zou, Ben - 2022
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 … administrative boundaries. Consequently, commuting-based MAs are relatively small, highly correlated with the administrative …
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China's urban unemployment challenge
Ge, Wei (contributor) - 2008
Since the launching of its economic reform and opening up programs in 1979, China has experienced an unprecedented economic expansion, as its real GDP growing at an annual average rate of about 10%. Despite the robust performance, the pressure for employment creation has continued to persist and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719359
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Childcare, eldercare, and labor force participation of married women in urban China: 1982 - 2000
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Chen, Lan; … - 2009
We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003859380
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Are all migrants really worse off in urban labour markets? : new empirical evidence from China
Gagnon, Jason; Xenogiani, Theodora; Xing, Chunbing - 2011
The rapid and massive increase of rural-to-urban migration in China has drawn attention to the welfare of migrant workers, particularly to their working conditions and pay. This paper uses data from a random draw of the 2005 Chinese national census survey to investigate discrimination in urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009529148
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Measuring the income-distance tradeoff for rural-urban migrants in China
Zhang, Junfu; Zhao, Zhong - 2013
Rural-urban migrants in China appear to prefer nearby destination cities. To gain a better understanding of this phenomenon, we build a simple model in which migrants from rural areas choose among potential destination cities to maximize utility. The distance between a migrant's home village and...
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