We study the labor market outcomes of males aged 18-60 obtaining an urban hukou as a result of land expropriation …-à-vis native urbanites. We also find that children of families experiencing a hukou change due to expropriation have similar … economic determinant of labor market outcomes and as a source of inequality. Differences in educational investment, regardless …

efficient land use. We trace these increases in productivity to an increase in land inequality associated with the Revolutionary …

-generated expropriation series is highly correlated with a commonly used measure of property rights; (ii) the explanatory power of … share of the U.S. aggregate fluctuations …

efficient land use. We trace these increases in productivity to an increase in land inequality associated with the Revolutionary …

, but also higher land inequality. Our results are in line with a literature going back to Arthur Young and Karl Marx on the … effects of Parliamentary enclosure on productivity and inequality. They do not support the argument that informal systems of …

efficient land use. We trace these increases in productivity to an increase in land inequality associated with the Revolutionary …

This paper uses the enactment of China’s 2007 Property Law (the Law), which reduces the risk of expropriation by local … document evidence consistent with a decrease in firms’ perceived expropriation risk as the main mechanism underlying the Law …