How Migration Restrictions Limit Agglomeration and Productivity in China

By Chun-Chung Au. 2006

483 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Tomoya Mori
2. Jiangyong Lu
3. Zhigang Tao
4. Ran Tao
5. J. Henderson
6. Y. Kanemoto
7. Petros Tesfazion
8. Samuel Bazzi

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Andreas Kontoleon
2. Pauline Grosjean
3. K. Mullan
4. Jiangyong Lu
5. Zhigang Tao
6. Petros Tesfazion
7. Samuel Bazzi
8. Ran Tao

Citations in the corpus

• Urbanization and Growth (2005, background): “Au and Henderson (2004) estimate these inverted-U ’s for different types of cities in China in 1997 and find that 30% of cities are significantly undersized – below the lower 95% confidence interval on their equivalent to *1n .”
• Trends and determinants of China's industrial agglomeration (2009, background): “[4] Au, C.”
• Provincial migration dynamics in China: Borders, costs and economic motivations (2006, background): “Au and Henderson (2002) however argue that restrictions on migration remain tight.”
• What is Different About Urbanization in Rich and Poor Countries? Cities in Brazil, China, India and the United States (2017, unknown): “In previous work, Au and Henderson (2006a) found that real incomes initially rise with city size in China and then decline in the largest cities.”
• Job search in thick markets (2011, unknown): “8 In any case, being ”too small” would be worst than being ”too big”, as the loss of real output per worker generated by under-sized cities is larger than that originating from oversize (Au and Henderson, 2006).”
• Moving off the farm: Land institutions to facilitate structural transformation and agricultural productivity growth in China (2012, unknown): “Restrictions on migrants’ ability to gain residency at the destination imply that virtually all migration is temporary (Fleisher & Yang, 2003), prevent equalization of income levels (Whalley & Zhang, 2007), and contribute to persistent cross-regional imbalances (Au & Henderson, 2006).”
• Partially awakened giants : uneven growth in China and India (2006, unknown): “Not only is labor mis-allocated across sectors, but the restrictions make it harder for China to realize agglomeration economies (Au and Henderson, 2006).”