This paper reviews the recent literature on rural-urban migration in developing countries,
focusing on three key questions: What motivates or forces people to migrate? What costs do …

Spatial economics aims to explain why there are peaks and troughs in the spatial
distribution of wealth and people, from the international and regional to the urban and local …

Leading empiricists and theorists of cities have recently argued that the generation and
exchange of ideas must play a more central role in the analysis of cities. This paper …

This paper is concerned with the urban wage premium and addresses two central issues
about which the field has not yet reached a consensus: first, the extent to which sorting of …

The relationship between housing prices and population migration is a crucial and heated
topic worldwide. However, few studies discussed how housing price influences the skill …

Despite the large urban–rural education gap observed in most countries, little attention has
been paid to whether cities actually enjoy a comparative advantage in the production of …

Rural areas are in decline, globally, and their revitalization requires the symbiotic
development of rural housing and industry. Whereas previous studies have examined the …

This paper provides descriptive evidence about the distribution of wages and skills in denser
and less dense employment areas in France. We confirm that on average, workers in denser …

The Industrial Removal Office funded 39,000 Jewish households to leave enclave
neighborhoods in New York City from 1900 to 1922. Compared to neighbors with the same …

In many OECD countries, low productivity growth has coincided with rising inequality.
Widening wage and productivity gaps between firms may have contributed to both …