Urbanization is happening fast in the developing world and especially so in sub-Saharan Africa where growth rates of …

Although Africa has experienced rapid urbanization in recent decades, we know little about the process of urbanization … they were free to migrate. Given a migration cost in distance, a town nearer to the homelands will receive a larger inflow … of people than a more distant town following the removal of mobility restrictions. Drawing upon this exogenous variation …

growth in Japan, industrialization induced population inflow from other prefectures, and this effect promoted urbanization in …We empirically analyzed the relationship between the change in industrial structure and urbanization using post …-WWII data from Japanese prefectures. This study used three concepts of industrial structure, standard industrialization …