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This paper examines an important anomaly in the internal migration history of the former Soviet Union (FSU). While many cities were closed in the sense of explicitly limiting growth of city population from migration, it was difficult to assess the effectiveness of these controls. We analyze a...
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This paper traces the urbanization experience of Tagbilaran City, Bohol taking into account the demographic development … urban status. It also looks into the nature and magnitude of government responses to the demands of increasing urbanization …
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Urbanization usually occurs with structural transformation driven by a "push" from agricultural productivity growth and … the "pull" effect dominated the "push" effect during the PRC's structural transformation and urbanization. This model … services intensity increases with its urbanization. …
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opening up. Rapid urbanization in the PRC has resulted from recent decades of intense rural-urban migration. The scale of … interregional migration. Facing the challenges of fast urbanization and growing urban diseases, local governments still rely on the … lead to more social problems. Policy makers should reconsider the way to achieve efficient and harmonious urbanization by …
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Urbanization has been progressing quickly in Indonesia and the consequences on health and health inequities are still …
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n this paper we determine the main driving forces underlying the structural transformation and urbanization process in … barriers played in China's growth and urbanization. We find that the primary drivers for real per capita GDP growth are … migration cost reduction and skill accumulation. While trade liberalization is important for urbanization during the transition …
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In cities, complementarity between a low-skilled and a high-skilled workforce can promote each other to improve labor productivity. In this study, we used earlier census data and 1% population survey data to examine the distribution of the skilled workforce in cities in the People's Republic of...
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urbanization agglomeration patterns of new firm location. To this end, we analyze the location decisions of new manufacturing firms … or urbanization- explain new firm's location. And second, using the coefficients obtained in these estimations for both … market pooling mechanism. For the industries with higher effect of urbanization economies on their location patterns …
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I use German administrative data for 2001-2010 to analyse the impact of urbanization and firm characteristics on wage …Ich verwende deutsche administrative Arbeitsmarktdaten für die Jahre 2001 bis 2010, um den Einfluss von Urbanisierung …
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