Rural-Urban Migration, Structural Transformation, and Housing Markets in China

Carlos Garriga (), Yang Tang and Ping Wang

No 2014-28, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Abstract: This paper explores the contribution of the structural transformation and urbanization process in the housing market in China. City migration flows combined with an inelastic land supply, due to entry restrictions, has raised house prices. This issue is examined using a multi-sector dynamic general-equilibrium model with migration and housing market. Our quantitative findings suggest that this process accounts for about 80 percent of urban housing prices. This mechanism remains valid in an extension calibrated to the two largest cities where housing booms have been particularly noticeable. Overall, supply factors and productivity account for most of the housing price growth.

Keywords: Migration; structural transformation; housing boom (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D90 E20 O41 R23 R31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 49 pages
Date: 2014-10-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cna, nep-dge, nep-mac, nep-mig, nep-tra and nep-ure
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DOI: 10.20955/wp.2014.028

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