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- Title
Does urban shrinkage lower labor productivity? The role of spatial expansion.
- Authors
Yang, Zhuqing; Zhu, Yuanyuan; Zhang, Yulin
- Abstract
Urban shrinkage in China displays a unique pattern to other contexts. Cities experiencing continuous population loss along with spatial expansion trigger a paradox in Chinese urbanization. This paper applies data from the national population census and city statistical yearbook in 2000 and 2010 for all 255 prefectural level cities to examine the relationship between the spatial expansion in shrinking cities and urban labour productivity. We find that this paradox over population loss with spatial expansion impedes the improvement of local labour productivity. To deal with the potential endogeneity problem, we also adopt the instrumental variable approach as robustness check. By using the historical population size and density in China as the instruments for our targeted variable, our main findings in OLS regressions still hold.
- Subjects
CHINA; URBAN decline; CENSUS; LABOR productivity; POPULATION density
- Publication
Regional Science Policy & Practice, 2022, Vol 14, p106
- ISSN
1757-7802
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/rsp3.12275