The book conducts a comprehensive study on urbanization and the development of cities in China. It provides detailed and systematic evidence on agglomeration effects on the urban labor market and industrial development. It studies the impact of economic agglomeration on the urban labor market and industrial development. It concludes that agglomeration will not only promote employment and incomes for workers, but also accelerate the growth of manufacturing and service industries. This book emphasizes the importance of increasing economic agglomeration and encouraging the free flow of production factors across regions in achieving coordinated development among regions. This book also provides policy implications to other developing countries in its conclusion.
Author(s): Hong Gao
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 236
City: Singapore
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Controversies of the Transformation of China’s Economic Growth and Urban Development Path
1.2 Economic Agglomeration and the Urban Labor Market Performance
1.3 Research Framework and Chapters Arranged
1.4 Main Contributions
Chapter 2 Why Do Big Cities Rise: A Literature Review
2.1 Economic Agglomeration Effect: A Review
2.1.1 Micro-foundations of economic agglomeration effect
2.1.2 Economic agglomeration and labor productivity: Empirical evidence
2.2 Urban Labor Market Effect of Economic Agglomeration
2.2.1 Economic agglomeration and employment of workers
2.2.2 Spatial general equilibrium and the income effect of economic agglomeration
2.3 Economic Agglomeration and Place-based Policies
2.3.1 Place-based policies
2.3.2 Cluster effect and the development of manufacturing industry
2.3.3 Agglomeration effect and employment multiplier effect of urban labor market
Chapter 3 Spatial Distribution of the Manufacturing Industry in China since the Reform and Opening Up: Roles of Globalization, Economic Agglomeration, and Economic Policy
3.1 Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities: Agglomeration Effect vs. Dispersing Effect
3.2 Features and Changes of the Spatial Distribution of China’s Manufacturing Industry since the Reform and Opening Up
3.3 Knowledge Spillovers and Changes in Spatial Distribution of Manufacturing Industries
3.4 Summary
Chapter 4 Economic Agglomeration and the Employment of Urban Workers
4.1 City Size and Employment: Theory
4.2 Economic Agglomeration and the Employment of Workers: Baseline Regression Results
4.3 Looking for the Instrumental Variable of City Size
4.4 Does Economic Agglomeration Harm Equity: Heterogeneous Influences of City Size on Employment
4.5 Summary
Chapter 5 Economic Agglomeration and the Income of Urban Residents
5.1 City Size and the Income of Workers: A Theoretical Analysis
5.2 Economic Agglomeration and the Income of Labors: Baseline Regression Results
5.3 The Heterogeneous Influence of City Size on the Income of Workers
5.4 Summary
Chapter 6 Manufacturing Industry Clusters in China: Data, Method, and Spatial Distribution Characteristics
6.1 Inter-industry Linkages, Agglomeration Effects, and Industrial Clusters
6.2 Data and Method Used in the Chapter
6.3 Defining Clusters of Manufacturing Industries in China
6.4 Spatial Distribution Patterns of Manufacturing Clusters in China
6.5 Summary
Chapter 7 Economic Agglomeration and Cluster Effects in Urban China
7.1 Why are Clusters of Manufacturing Industries Important?
7.2 Industrial Clusters and Employment Growth
7.3 Clusters and Industry Development: Quantity Effect vs. Quality Effect
7.4 Industry Value Chain Positions and Heterogeneous Cluster Effects
7.5 Summary
Chapter 8 Urbanization, Urban Development, and Structural Transformation
8.1 Place-Based Policies and Employment Multiplier Effect
8.2 Data and Model Specification
8.3 Employment Multiplier Effect in the Local Labor Market: Empirical Results
8.4 Model Extensions: Urbanization, Economic Agglomeration and Heterogeneous Employment Multiplier Effect
8.5 Summary
Chapter 9 Conclusions
9.1 Main Conclusions
9.2 Inclusive Growth and Coordinated Development among Regions
9.3 Prospects for Future Researches
References
Index
