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Urban Bias, Migration, and Unemployment

Jiancai Pi & Xia Liu

The BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy2026https://doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2025-0272article
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We investigate how urban bias affects rural-urban migration and unemployment. The findings are as follows. When there is an increase in the degree of urban bias in the urban skilled sector, the number of rural-urban migrants will decline, and the urban unskilled unemployment rate will rise. However, when there is an increase in the degree of urban bias in the urban unskilled sector, if the initial allocation proportion of public infrastructure for the urban unskilled sector is large (resp. small) enough, the number of rural-urban migrants will fall (resp. rise), and the urban unskilled unemployment rate will rise (resp. fall).

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@article{jiancai2026,
  title        = {{Urban Bias, Migration, and Unemployment}},
  author       = {Jiancai Pi & Xia Liu},
  journal      = {The BE Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1515/bejeap-2025-0272},
}

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0.50

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F · citation impact0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20
M · momentum0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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