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 … China at the province level. Second a multidimensional index of the networking among the components is computed. The index …

rural residents. In this paper we focus on China's household registration system, or "hukou", as a potential source of 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 walls in late imperial China have higher population and employment …

In this paper, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate how well China's urban areas absorb migrant workers … under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-oriented BCC model to evaluate provincial … and regional rural labor absorption efficiency in mainland China. It appears that 4 out of 31 provinces and municipals are …

influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for …

impediment to the transformation, as it weakens the incentives of households to consume. Besides a low degree of social security … in the future. The urbanization strategy of the government will likely raise the number of migrants with limited hukou … rights, if it is not accompanied by respective reforms. Therefore, the transformation towards consumption driven growth is …

-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 sociocultural contexts. As China has recently undergone rapid economic … transformation in the urban areas, this empirical exercise is particularly interesting because it can highlight how changing social …

This paper identifies health determinants in urban China applying the Grossman model. Using a wave of China Health and … health than a female does, and a married couple has better health in urban China …

system: China-to-South Korea ethnic labour migration. Over the past decade, South Korea has experienced an unprecedented … increase in the arrival of foreign labour. The majority of workers come from the People's Republic of China. Based on a … source of migrant labour in South Korea demonstrate that the China-to-South Korea ethnic population movement is an important …

China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily …. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are aging and migration related in post-reform China? We argue that there … empirically the relationship between origin age distribution and interprovincial migration in China using province-level census …