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The Role of China's Household Registration System in the Urban-Rural Income Differential

Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2017

Together with the rapid growth of the Chinese economy, there has been a growing divide in the earnings of urban and rural residents. In this paper we focus on China's household registration system, or "hukou", as a potential source of the earnings gap. Using multiple waves of data from the...

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Rural Labor Absorption Efficiency in Urban Areas Under Different Urbanization Patterns and Industrial Structures : The Case of China

Liwen, Chen - 2011

under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-oriented BCC model to evaluate provincial … urbanization patterns and industrial development strategies should be adopted in different economic areas to enhance labor …

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Migration and Urban Poverty and Inequality in China

Park, Albert - 2014

Using data from recent surveys of migrants and local residents in 10 cities in 2005, this paper examines how migration influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for migrants and local residents. Contrary to...

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Height, Weight and Well-Being for Rural, Urban and Migrant Workers in China

Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2015

In general, the happiness literature has paid little attention to the relationship between physical appearance and well-being. In this paper, we examine the link between weight, height and well-being for three distinct samples in China given that attractiveness effects likely vary greatly across...

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Migration and Urbanisation in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Bakker, Jan David - 2016

Under apartheid, black South Africans were severely restricted in their choice of location and many were forced to live in homelands. Following the abolition of apartheid they were free to migrate. Given gravity, a town nearer to the homelands can be expected to receive a larger inflow of people...

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Integration of Technological and Social Components in a Smart Urban Development Model : A Case Study of China

Heshmati, Almas; Koohborfardhaghighi, Somayeh; Summers, … - 2022

The path of urbanization around the world and in particular in China has been rapid. This study addresses measurement … urbanization. This study has a number of objectives. First we identify key determinants of public infrastructure components in …. In another step we estimate the effects of the composite index and its underlying components on urbanization. Finally …

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Walled Cities and Urban Density in China

Du, Rui - 2018

Throughout the imperial era, defensive walls surrounded Chinese cities. Although most city walls have vanished, the cities have survived. We analyze a sample of nearly 300 prefectural-level cities in China, among which about half historically had city walls. We document that cities that had...

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City Beautiful

Carlino, Gerald A.; Saiz, Albert - 2021

The city beautiful movement, which in the early 20th Century advocated city beautification as a way to improve the living conditions and civic virtues of the urban dweller, had languished by the Great Depression. Today, new urban economic theory and policymakers are coming to see the provision...

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Spatial Distribution of US Employment in an Urban Wage-Efficiency Setting

Giménez, José Ignacio - 2016

In this paper, we analyze the spatial distribution of US employment and earnings against an urban wage-efficiency background, where leisure and effort at work are complementary. Using data from the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) for the period 2003-2014, we analyze the spatial distribution of...

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Entrepreneurship and Market Size : The Case of Young College Graduates in Italy

Di Addario, Sabrina Lucia - 2010

fixed effects and is robust to instrumenting urbanization. Provinceﾒs competition, urban amenities and dis-amenities, cost … capita account for 40 percent of the negative urbanization penalty. Our result cannot be explained by the presence of … markets, young entrepreneurs are able to reap-off the benefits of urbanization externalities: every 100,000-inhabitant …

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