Homeward bound: How migrants seek out familiar climates

MAB Obolensky, M Tabellini, C Taylor - 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper introduces the concept of “climate matching” as a driver of migration and
establishes several new results. First, we show that climate strongly predicts the spatial …

Identifying the employment effect of county‐city merger in China

W Liu, T Xie - Population, Space and Place, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
This paper draws upon a quasi‐natural experiment of county‐city mergers in China to
examine whether state‐led urbanisation makes a difference in local labour markets. Based …

Spatial inequalities in Latin America: Mapping aggregate to micro-level disparities

A Gómez-Lobo, D Oviedo - 2023 - econstor.eu
We examine three dimensions of spatial inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
(LAC): between rural and urban areas (rural-urban divide), between large and small cities …

Investigating the Impact of Establishing an Industrial Town on the Development of Surrounding Villages (Study Case: Eshghabad Industrial Town, Ray City)

N Abri Oghni, SA Firouzabadi, M Radfar - Journal of Rural Research, 2023 - jrur.ut.ac.ir
One of the basic policies of the Iranian government in the program of rural development and
reducing inequalities between cities and villages is the establishment of industry in villages …