A model of urban demography

Hiroshi Aiura () and Yasuhiro Sato
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Hiroshi Aiura: Faculty of Economics, Oita University (Japan)

No 09-18-Rev, Discussion Papers in Economics and Business from Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics

Abstract: This paper develops an overlapping generations model that involves the endogenous determination of fertility and an explicit city structure in order to analyze fully the social and natural changes in city populations. We provide conditions under which the model exhibits the spatial features of demography observed in large Japanese cities. We also show by calibration that the low cost of obtaining human capital in Tokyo metropolitan area played a significant role in establishing its urban primacy in Japan.

Keywords: urbanization; demography; migration; monocentric city (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J11 R11 R14 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2009-06, Revised 2009-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dge, nep-geo and nep-ure
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