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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
Transactions ID Number: 52-299
Full Name: Ming Guan
Position: Associate Professor
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Sex: Male
Address: road bayi 88
Country: CHINA
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E-mail address: gming0604@sohu.com
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Title of the Paper: Migration among multicities
Authors as they appear in the Paper: Ming Guan
Email addresses of all the authors: gming0604@sohu.com
Number of paper pages: 14
Abstract: This paper proposes a simple model of economic geography within the Dixit-Stiglitz-Iceberg framework that may be used to analyze migration patterns among three cities. The cost¨Cbenefit tradeoffs affecting incentives for three types of migration, including echelon migration, are discussed. This paper develops a tractable, heterogeneous-agent, general equilibrium model, where agents share constant human capital, and explores the relationship between the benefits of echelon migration and gross human capital. Using Chinese numerical solutions, we study the manifestation of echelon migration and how it responds to changes in transportation cost and elasticity of substitution. Numerical results demonstrate that (i) there are positive relationships between a migration¡¯s benefit-and-wage ratio, (ii) there are positive relationships between gross human capital ratios and wage ratios as to origin and destination, and (iii) we identify 13 varieties of human capital converge!
nce among cities. In particular, this model predicts population shock resulting from the processes of migration choice and echelon migration.
Keywords: Echelon migration, Trade-off, Dixit-Stiglitz-Iceberg framework, Elasticity
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