This paper examines the relationship between city size, migration, and urban income inequality using the 1% sample of … population size. As rural-to-urban migration is crucial in determining city size distribution in the PRC, we focus on exploring … the role of massive migration into big cities on shaping this size-inequality relationship. We find that the share of …

This study introduces the urbanicity index of employment. Unlike traditional measures of urbanization (e ….g., urbanization rate), the urbanicity index is distance-based and accounts for the scale aspect as well as the concentration aspect of … urbanization. The concentration aspect can be decomposed into the intersectoral mobility of employment and the spatial mobility of …