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Migration reform and fertility : evidence from rural China

Jin, Wenchao; Jin, Zhangfeng - 2026

How do institutional barriers to migration shape fertility in developing economies? We analyze the staggered removal of institutional barriers to rural-to-urban migration across 283 Chinese cities. We find that reducing these frictions led to a significant and persistent increase in fertility in...

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Coupling social networks with space : the embeddedness of low-skilled returnee’ entrepreneurship in rural China

Zhang, Yue; Liu, Langjie; Zha, Xiaofang; Sun, Li; … - 2026

Urban-to-rural return migration has become an increasingly important force reshaping rural livelihoods in China. Yet existing research on returnee entrepreneurship often assumes that migrants can transfer trans-local networks and resources accumulated during migration back to their hometowns and...

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Dairy farming and the rural exodus

Andersson, Jonatan; Ulväng, Göran - 2026

This article studies the role of disamenity work in the rural sector in the shift in the urban sector and growth of cities. We focus on the effects of dairy farming, a sector with famously harsh working conditions, in Sweden around the turn of the twentieth century on rural-urban migration,...

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Structural change in African countries : focus on urban wages

Fukunishi, Takahiro - 2026

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Urbanization and educational attainment : evidence from Africa

Maarseveen, Raoul van - 2026

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Uncovering son preference cultures from migrants under endogenous destination selection

Liu, Kai; Liu, Xiangqing; Zhang, Anwen; Deng, Zhongliang - 2026

This paper examines the cultural component of son preference through rural-to-urban migration in China, using a large representative dataset covering migrants from all origins to all destinations. Employing a generalized Roy model with a control function approach, we show that conventional...

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Livelihood alternatives to labor migration : a choice experiment in Tajikistan

Lambrecht, Isabel; Rajiv, Sharanya; Block, Wouter de; … - 2026

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The heterogeneous migration motivations of college graduates in China : the role of preferential household registration policies

Sheng, Yuxue; Huang, Qianqian; Chih, Yao-Yu; Jiang, Cheng - 2026

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Migration governance in central and Eastern European cities post-2015

2026

This open-access book provides a thorough overview of migration trends and governance in Central and Eastern European (CEE) cities since 2015. For decades, CEE cities were primarily shaped by emigration. However, more than a decade of unprecedented change—from the 2015 European refugee...

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International migration, ageing, and growth in rural Spanish provinces : a roadmap for policymakers?

Nicolini, Rosella; Roig Sabaté, José-Luis - 2025

The aim of our research is to provide additional evidence of international migration's impact on economic growth in regions with ageing populations, namely by analysing the impact on rural versus urban areas in Spain. With Spanish provinces categorised as predominantly urban, predominantly rural...

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Digital roots or digital routes? : broadband expansion and the rural-urban migration in China

Ma, Shuang; Mu, Ren - 2025

This study investigates broadband internet's impact on rural-urban migration in China, using the Universal Broadband and Telecommunication Services pilot program as a quasi-experimental setting. Analyzing China Household Finance Survey data (2013-2021) through difference-in-differences...

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Resilient public policy in uncertain times : a case study on MGNREGA's role in supporting reverse migrants and sustaining rural employment in India

Paliwal, Manisha; Tripathy, K. K.; Chatradhi, Nishita - 2026

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Skills, migration, and urban amenities over the life cycle

Albouy, David; Faberman, R. Jason - 2025

We examine sorting behavior across metropolitan areas by skill over individuals' life cycles. We show that high-skill workers disproportionately sort into high-amenity areas, but do so relatively early in life. Workers of all skill levels tend to move towards lower-amenity areas during their...

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Skills, migration, and urban amenities over the life cycle

Albouy, David; Faberman, R. Jason - 2025

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Migration and European cities : a multidimensional perspective

Dines, Nick - 2026

This open access book offers a unique and timely investigation of the multifaceted relationship between migration and European cities. Its chapters critically examine the historical, economic, socio-spatial, cultural and policy–political dimensions of the migration–city nexus, bringing...

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Impacts of urban-rural migration on domain-specific satisfaction

Kumagai, Junya; Yoo, Sunbin; Managi, Shunsuke - 2025

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Rural tourism as a catalyst for labor return? : a rethinking of return migration from a mixed embeddedness perspective

Wang, Xinrui; Huang, Dandan; Wu, Meiling - 2026

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Cities and the rise of working women

Berger, Thor; Karadja, Mounir; Prawitz, Erik - 2025

We document that large cities were instrumental in shaping women's work and family outcomes in the early 20th century. We focus on migrants to Stockholm, Sweden's largest city, using representative, linked census data. Female migrants to Stockholm saw persistent changes in work and family...

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Cities and the rise of working women

Berger, Thor; Karadja, Mounir; Prawitz, Erik - 2024

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Hometown landholdings and rural migrants' housing tenure choices in urban China : evidence from CMDS

Zou, Jing; Wang, Baitao; Lan, Xiaoxuan; Deng, Xiaojun - 2026

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The impact of minimum wage on the employment of rural migrant workers in China

Li, Yanan; Ma, Mengge; Wu, Shanshan - 2026

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How Do Migrants Fare in Africa's Urban Labor Markets?

Christiaensen, Luc; Keenan, Michael - 2025

Africa's urban population is on the rise, and it is often feared that migrants are a direct source of urban underdevelopment under the premise that they are poorly integrated into urban labor markets. This study examines the validity of this premise using data from six African countries. It...

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Does social health insurance portability promote rural labor migration? : evidence from health care reform in China

Wei, Mingyu; Li, Jinke - 2026

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Chinese migrant workers' integration into cities and land transfer amid urban-rural population mobility

Zhu, Sha; Tian, Chengzhi; Hu, Yuanrui - 2025

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Minimum wage disparities and internal migration : evidence from China

Yang, Qianqian; Hamaguchi, Nobuaki - 2025

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Endogenous migration restrictions and population aging in China

Chen, Zhu; Zhang, Jipeng; Zhou, Kang - 2026

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Formal and informal debt in China : evidence from the 2014 hukou reform

Xu, Lei; Tani, Massimiliano; Zhu, Yu; Wen, Xin - 2025

We investigate the impact of China's 2014 hukou reform - a major change allowing migrants living in small and medium-sized cities of less than 5 million people to apply for urban residence - on formal and informal borrowing at a time of rapid economic transformation. We find that the hukou...

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On the political economy of urbanization : experimental evidence from mozambique

Armand, Alex; Mendonça, Frederica; Sandholtz, Wayne Aaron - 2026

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Migration, growth, and poverty reduction in rural China : retrospect and prospects

Giles, John; Mu, Ren - 2026

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Migration, Growth, and Poverty Reduction in Rural China : Retrospect and Prospects

Giles, John - 2024

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Internal migration over the course of urbanization in developing countries

Lerch, Mathias; Du, Wenxiu; Beckendorff, Dorothee - 2025

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The places we'll go : who moves to rural Canada?

Finlay, Lindsay; Haan, Michael - 2025

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Entrepreneurship, economy and inequality : evidence from China’s return-home policy

Cui, Liu; Liew, Yit Wey; Rahman, Muhammad Habibur - 2025

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Rural depopulation in the 21st century : a systematic review of policy assessments

Loras-Gimeno, Diego; Díaz-Lanchas, Jorge; … - 2025

Policies tackling rural depopulation are growing over the recent years and pose a significant challenge to policymakers and communities worldwide. This paper presents a systematic review of policy assessments aimed at mitigating rural depopulation. It encompasses 66 studies published since 2000....

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From rural schools to city factories : assessing the quality of Chinese rural schools

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kang, Le; Li, Xueying; Zhang, Lei - 2025

The changing pattern of quality in China’s rural schools across time and province is extracted from the differential labor market earnings of rural migrant workers. Variations in rates of return to years of schooling across migrant workers working in the same urban labor market but having...

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From rural schools to city factories : assessing the quality of Chinese rural schools

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Kang, Le; Li, Xueying; Zhang, Lei - 2025

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Addressing rural energy poverty and rural-urban energy access gap in developing countries : does international remittances matter?

Acheampong, Alex O.; Brahim, Mariem; Dzator, Janet - 2025

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Mobile money remittances to cope with aggregate shocks : urban migrants and rural families under the COVID-19 lockdown in Bangladesh

Egami, Hiroyuki; Mano, Yukichi; Matsumoto, Tomoya - 2025

In developing economies, rural households send their members to urban areas to cope with idiosyncratic shocks by sharing resources through internal remittances, which are more prevalent than international remittances. However, there is limited evidence on the role of internal remittances in...

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Long-term effects of weather-induced migration on urban labor and housing markets

Busso, Matias; Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2025

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Long-term effects of weather-induced migration on urban labor and housing markets

Busso, Matias; Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2023

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Urban distances, individual resources, and migrant entrepreneurship : a configurational analysis in China

Xie, Zhimin; Li, Yiting; Xie, Lingmin - 2025

Given its significance for economic and social sustainability, migrant entrepreneurship (ME) has attracted increasing attention from scholars and policymakers. However, existing research provides limited insights into how various antecedents jointly affect ME. To address this gap, this study...

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Does urbanization cause crime? : evidence from rural-urban migration in South Africa

Exbrayat, Nelly; Stephane, Victor - 2025

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Liminal urbanisation : undoing interior settler colonialism through the disruption of urban homogeneity

Marinovic, Goran Ivo - 2025

In Mediterranean cities, settler colonial urbanisation operates through spatial homogenisation that transforms difference into otherness. Since 1979, in Budva, Montenegro, low-income working-class and forced migrants have confronted settler colonial urban practices—a system wherein established...

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Housing market responses to constrained mobility rights : evidence from a school enrollment reform for migrant children

Hou, Yilin; Qi, Jinghua; Tang, Yugang - 2025

Mobility matches open housing markets. With constrained mobility and partially open housing markets, market responses reflect the constraints. We study this mechanism by examining disparity in access to public schools across socio-economic groups, focusing on properties near primary schools...

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From garments to grievances : the dynamics of urban growth and economic shocks in rapidly industrialising economies

D'Amico, Elisa - 2025

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Ascending from the bottom rung : the labor market assimilation of rural-urban migrants in Sweden, 1880-1910

Andersson, Jonatan - 2025

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Forever young : China's migration regime and age patterns

Yang, Xiaxia; Chan, Kam Wing - 2025

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Have China's internal migrants been more settled since 2010? : a contribution based on migrants' age profiles

Yang, Xiaxia; Chan, Kam Wing - 2025

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Leave or stay? : the determinants of the migration behavior of university graduates in Shanghai

Yu, Yunjiang; Shen, Jianfa; Xin, Guangyi; He, Jun - 2025

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Daughters left behind : how trade liberalization harms girls in China when government restricts migration

Gao, Xuwen; Liang, Wenquan; Mobarak, Ahmed Mushfiq; … - 2025

China's accession to the WTO created new economic opportunities in certain cities. A shift-share identification strategy shows that residents of adjacent rural areas migrated in and advanced economically. Longitudinal panel data on children reveals that their sons benefit, but...

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Rural-urban migration and agro-technological change in post-reform China

Kaufmann, Lena - 2025

How do rural Chinese households deal with the conflicting pressures of migrating into cities to work as well as staying at home to preserve their fields? This is particularly challenging for rice farmers, because paddy fields have to be cultivated continuously to retain their soil quality and...

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