期刊
ECONOMIC SYSTEMS
卷 41, 期 2, 页码 165-178出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecosys.2016.07.002
关键词
City size; Industrial structure; Labor productivity; Spatial panel model
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资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [NSF7161101095, NSF71173045, NSF71573166]
- Shanghai University of Finance and Economics graduate student innovation fund [CXJJ-2013-413]
The previous literature has generally found that most Chinese cities were undersized in the 1990s. However, little is known about how urban agglomeration in China has evolved since the country began to experience much faster urbanization and deep marketization after 2000. Based on panel data of 281 cities between 2000 and 2013, our spatial panel data regression results show that the scale impact of city size on urban productivity appears to have an inverted U shape, and its effect will grow when the cities' industrial structure becomes more dominated by the service sector. There are also significant spatial interactions and spatial heterogeneity of urban agglomeration among Chinese cities. Furthermore, we compute the optimal size for each city and find that most Chinese cities are still undersized in recent years. Based on our findings, we argue that the Chinese government should focus on promoting sufficient growth of medium sized cities in its new urbanization strategy. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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