Is There a City Size Bias? Destination Choice of Rural off-Farm Workers, Evidences from Three Areas in Rural China
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Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; International Development; Labor and Human Capital;
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CNA-2015-08-07 (China)
- NEP-DCM-2015-08-07 (Discrete Choice Models)
- NEP-MIG-2015-08-07 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-TRA-2015-08-07 (Transition Economics)
- NEP-URE-2015-08-07 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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- Combes, Pierre-Philippe & Gobillon, Laurent, 2015. "The Empirics of Agglomeration Economies," Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, in: Gilles Duranton & J. V. Henderson & William C. Strange (ed.), Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics, edition 1, volume 5, chapter 0, pages 247-348, Elsevier.