Demand for urban quality of living in China: Evolution in compensating land-rent and wage-rate differentials

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 194-213

  Zheng, Siqi ^a   Fu, Yuming ^b   Liu, Hongyu ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Labor mobility; Quality of living; Urban land rent; Urban wage rate

Indexed keywords

EID: 66149089054     PISSN: 08955638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11146-008-9152-0     Document Type: Article

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