We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a stylized dynamic model of urban growth with three sectors of …’). If, however, production becomes cleaner over time (‘green growth’) the equilibrium urbanization path reaches the … efficient urbanization path after finite time without need of a coordinating mechanism. The results may be generalized to take …

gender. Women are also found to be less directly dependent on migration costs unrelated to networks such as distance. …This paper looks at the impact of networks on international migration flows to OECD countries. In particular, we look … at whether diaspora effects are different across education levels and gender. Using new data allowing to include both …

Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …-national level. To capture this long-term relationship, a new index of gender equality that stretches back to 1960 is introduced …

Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic cost of migration. We monetize psychic … geographic distance and pre-migration wage profiles, we find that migrants demand a (indexed with respect to local rents) wage …

a gravity analysis, we show that current cross-regional migration is positively affected by historical dialect …

between internal migration and regional variation in the generosity of Canada’s unemployment insurance system. It has long … regions, it retards the out-migration that is part of the market process, thereby slowing economic development and … the empirical literature that regional variation in the generosity of the insurance system has altered internal migration …

explain why urbanization did not drive the economy to sustained growth. Our main contribution, validated by an estimated VAR … model, suggests that in an early stage of development, migration to cities may have negative consequences for rural marginal … productivity. The analysis provides a picture of a trapped economy where urbanization was unable to trigger a persistent process of …

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear …

We analyse empirically the effects of urbanization on Italian college graduates’ work possibilities as entrepreneurs … instrumenting urbanization. Provinces’ competition, urban amenities and dis-amenities, cost of labour, earning differentials between … urbanization penalty. Our result cannot be explained by the presence of negative differentials in returns to entrepreneurship …