Search Results - subject:"Rural to urban migration"

Agglomeration, Pollution, and Migration: A Substantial Link, and Policy Design

Stark, Oded; Pang, Yu; Fan, Simon - In: World Scientific Handbook of Global Migration, Volume …, (pp. 199-225). 2024

migration, whereas urban pollution deters rural-to-urban migration. By means of a general equilibrium model we study the … and mitigating urban pollution in the presence of endogenous rural-to-urban migration. We show that without government … intervention, although rural-to-urban migration contributes to agglomeration economies, it does not improve social welfare because …

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Agglomeration, pollution, and migration: A substantial link, and policy design

Stark, Oded; Pang, Yu; Fan, Simon Chengze - 2022

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Agglomeration, pollution, and migration : a substantial link, and policy design

Stark, Oded; Pang, Yu; Fan, Chengze Simon - 2022

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Why is the rural to urban migration rate in India so low? : an empirical analysis

Tripathi, Sabyasachi - In: The review of regional studies : a joint publ. of the … 51 (2021) 1, pp. 1-16

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Migration to and from welfare states : lived experiences of the welfare-migration nexus in a globalised world

Ryndyk, Oleksandr (ed.); Suter, Brigitte (ed.); … - 2021

This open access book explores the role of family, public, market and third sector welfare provision for individual and households’ decisions regarding geographical mobility. It challenges the state-centred approach in research on welfare and migration by emphasising migrants’ own...

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The impact of China's hukou restrictions on the aggregate national saving

Adolfo, Cristobal Campoamor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper presents a model accounting for the impact of the Chinese rural-urban migration on the stock of aggregate saving and the skill composition of the urban labor force. The novel mechanism through which immigration affects labor-market outcomes is the availability of new loanable funds...

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Entrepreneurship of the left-behind

Giulietti, Corrado; Wahba, Jackline; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013

While there is evidence that return migration promotes entrepreneurship and self-employment of those who migrated, previous studies have not focused on whether migration provides the same benefits to individuals who did not migrate. Using a unique dataset that provides information on both...

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Entrepreneurship of the Left-Behind

Giulietti, Corrado; Wahba, Jackline; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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How does relationship-based governance accommodate new entrants? Evidence from the cycle rickshaw rental market

Jain, Tarun; Sood, Ashima - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

A large theoretical and empirical literature suggests that the salience of network-based ties in contract enforcement under relation-based governance systems limits market expansion. This paper illustrates the incorporation of new agents into market exchange under conditions of informal contract...

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Self-employment of rural-to-urban migrants in China

Giulietti, Corrado; Ning, Guangjie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose self-employment or paid work based on the potential gains from either type of employment; the...

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