This paper explores the relationship between fiscal decentralization, which gave greater rural industrialization and … China's initial reform period. A Heckman model is employed to correct for the zero observation problems and to consistently … estimate the labor mobility with a modified gravity equation. Given the institutional barriers, the fiscal decentralization has …

This paper explores the relationship between fiscal decentralization, which gave greater rural industrialization and … China's initial reform period. A Heckman model is employed to correct for the zero observation problems and to consistently … estimate the labor mobility with a modified gravity equation. Given the institutional barriers, the fiscal decentralization has …

This paper explores the relationship between fiscal decentralization, which gave greater rural industrialization and … China's initial reform period. A Heckman model is employed to correct for the zero observation problems and to consistently … estimate the labor mobility with a modified gravity equation. Given the institutional barriers, the fiscal decentralization has …

Nearly a quarter of all children under the age of two in China are left behind in the countryside as parents migrate to … of labor from rural to urban areas has been a key driver of China's prosperity in recent decades, it may entail a …

investigates the impact of land tenure security on farmers’ labor market outcomes in rural China. To identify the effect of land …

accountability. We also show that decentralization can only Pareto dominate centralization in economies with negative externalities …

. Given this general framework, the convenience of decentralization versus centralization mainly depends on the interaction … regions. To summarize, from a positive viewpoint, decentralization should not be necessarily pursued only in the absence of … determine an asymmetry among citizens' responses concerning the best institutional setting. -- decentralization ; spillovers …