Relaxing Hukou: Increased labor mobility and China's economic geography

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 72, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 252-266

  Bosker, Maarten ^a,b   Brakman, Steven ^c,d   Garretsen, Harry ^c,d,e   Schramm, Marc ^f  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d CESIFO   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

China; Cities; Labour mobility; New economic geography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863812311     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2012.06.002     Document Type: Article

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