This paper argues for a more systemic engagement with Latin American cities, contending it is necessary to reconsider … their unity in order to nuance the 'fractured cities' perspective that has widely come to epitomise the contemporary urban …

examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium and large cities for the period 1960 through 2002. We conclude that … unrestricted cities. This pattern seemingly came to an end in the late 1990s. …

examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium and large cities for the period 1960 through 2002. We conclude that … unrestricted cities. This pattern seemingly came to an end in the late 1990s. …

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear … substantial natural resource exports. Countries also attract more FDI if they have more medium-sized cities and primacy is not too … suffer from primacy. However, FDI is attracted if surrounding countries have fewer cities, restrictions on international …

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 …

it would imply too high costs for fast growing economies like China. To quantify these costs we develop a general … increased urbanization raises the costs of carbon policies due to altered consumption patterns. …

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a stylized dynamic model of urban growth with three sectors of … production. Pollution, as a force that discourages agglomeration, is caused by domestic production. We show that cities are too …'). If, however, production becomes cleaner over time ('green growth') the equilibrium urbanization path reaches the …

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 …

on the utility of migrants, as proxied by their subjective well-being (SWB). Using data from a new survey on China (RUMiC … contractual motivations (such as co-insurance and investment) are at work among rural-to-urban migrants in China. … migrants, migration experience and the diversity of family arrangements. As a complementary objective, we use SWB measures to …