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and micro levels. We argue that forced relocation in urban China is not necessarily equivalent to displacement. Studying …Despite the massive forced relocation of residents during urban restructuring in China, there are no systematic studies … on how residents undergo the process. Most studies concerning urban restructuring in China directly equate forced …
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Shenyang, China. Through in-depth interviews with homeowners living in danwei communities, or urban villages, at the pre …
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This study assesses the empirical relevance of the Harris-Todaro model at high levels of urbanization a feature that …
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This paper explores the effects of weather-induced rural-urban migration on urban labor and housing markets in Brazil. In order to identify causal effects, it uses weather shocks to the rural municipalities of origin of migrants. We show that larger migration shocks led to an increase in...
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the association between gentrification and displacement in English cities. Gentrification is the phenomena of a large and … significant contribution to the literature on displacement, which has previously found little evidence for the effect. …
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In the last few decades, urban restructuring programs have been implemented in many Western European cities with the main goal of combating a variety of socioeconomic problems in deprived neighborhoods. The main instrument of restructuring has been housing diversification and tenure mixing. The...
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Concentration to disadvantaged neighbourhoods may hinder immigrants' opportunities for social integration, so equal chances of translating available economic resources into mobility to less disadvantaged neighbourhoods are important. This paper adds to existing research on exits from poor...
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Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People's Republic of China …, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions …
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