Similar Search Results

Multiple Dimension of Urban Well-Being : Evidence from India

Chandrasekhar, S.; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - 2014

This paper addresses differences in outcomes across households residing in slums and non-slum urban areas of India. Using a nationally representative household data set, we undertake a robust multidimensional evaluation of intracity differences in well-being. We first established that if utility...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049311

Urban Residents' Prejudice and Integration of Rural Migrants into Urban China

Tse, Chun-Wing - 2014

Using data from a 2011 national household survey, this paper examines the factors shaping urban residents' prejudice toward rural-to-urban migrants and the impacts of prejudice on rural migrants' integration into urban communities. The results show that urban residents with higher education and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014145447

Gross Migration, Housing and Urban Population Dynamics

Davis, Morris A.; Fisher, Jonas D. M.; Veracierto, Marcelo - 2014

Cities experience significant, near random walk productivity shocks, yet population is slow to adjust. In practice, local population changes are dominated by variation in net migration, and we argue that understanding gross migration is essential to quantify how net migration may slow population...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014150841

Handbook of urban inequalities

Mahadevia, Darshini; Sarkar, Sandip - 2012

"Nearly all urban data used for the purpose of economic analysis, urban policymaking, and investment decision-making are aggregated data. Urban systems, however, are heterogeneous and complex, which requires more nuanced responses. This handbook reprocesses NSS household-level schedules to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013478263

Urban population distribution in China : evidence from internet population

Li, Huixuan; Chen, Jing; Chen, Zihao; Xu, Jianguo - In: China economic review : an international journal 74 (2022), pp. 1-15

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229342

Testing Taylor's law in urban population dynamics worldwide with simultaneous equation models

Benassi, Federico; Naccarato, Alessia; Salvatici, Luca - In: Economies : open access journal 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-17

urbanization processes (the Americas, and African and Asian countries). The predominance of quadratic relationships characterized … regions with long-established urbanization processes, such as Europe, Russia, and, partly, China and the Middle East. The … relevance of the TL for a refined understanding of urbanization mechanisms worldwide, and the importance of a quadratic term for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014230695

Ageing and urbanization : proceedings of the United Nations International Conference on Ageing Populations in the Context of Urbanization, Sendai (Japan), 12 - 16 September 1988

United Nations / Dept. of Internat. Econ. a.Social Affairs - 1991

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014272550

How do urban population growth, hydropower consumption and natural resources rent shape environmental quality in Sudan?

Alnour, Mohammed; Ali, Maysam; Abdalla, Abdelaziz; … - In: World development sustainability 1 (2022) 1, pp. 1-16

Despite the overwhelming research and useful outcomes on the relationship between hydropower consumption, urban population growth, and environmental quality, the empirical studies have mostly relied on partial indicators of environmental quality and employed conventional econometric models in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013553938

Deux siècles de croissance urbaine : la population des villes françaises de 1831 à 1990

Guérin-Pace, France - 1993

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013556301

Urban environment in India : <problems and prospects> ; essays in honour of Ujagir Singh

Dube, Kamala K. (ed.); Singh, Ujagir (honouree); … - 1988

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014002021