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Title: Three Essays on Regional and Urban Economics

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2019

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Abstract: This dissertation is composed of three chapters on regional and urban economics. The first chapter evaluates a regional policy in China....The second chapter examines the effect of city size on innovation... The third chapter explains the reasons for the decreasing migration flows in the United States. Migration has been viewed as critical for the flexibility of the U.S. labor market, but its role of smoothing out macroeconomic shocks has been falling in recent years (Partridge et al. 2012). This study investigates the reasons for decreasing migration flows and provides evidence for the link between dwindling migration and increasing industry mobility in the United States from 2005 to 2015. Linked to the labor search theory (Mortenson, 1986), this study illustrates how industry mobility substitute for migration flows. Empirical results suggest that industry mobility is inversely associated with outmigration rate. The role of migration for smoothing out demand shocks becomes less important in regions where industry mobility rates are high. The findings justify that the increasing industry mobility can explain the decreasing migration flows in the U.S

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Authors: Deng, Nanxin

Institution: The Ohio State University

Department: Agricultural, Environmental, and Developmental Economics

Advisor: Mark Partridge

Degree: Ph.D.

Publisher Location: Ohio

Pages: 123

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration

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