Abstract

The aim of this article is to analyze the patterns of the Chinese urban growth from 1984 to 2004, a period of important economic, social and institutional changes within this country. This article follows a two-sequenced methodological path. First, it applies Ioannides et Overman's seminal work on urban growth, by elaborating a non-parametric relation between urban growth rates and city-size. Second, it uses convergence tests in order to study the city-size evolution. The article delivers evidence that when migrations are institutionally controlled, urban growth leads to convergence; when these controls loosen-up, urban growth follows a random walk process. L’objectif de cet article est de proposer une analyse de la croissance urbaine chinoise entre 1984 et 2004, une periode marquee par des changements economiques, sociaux et institutionnels importants. Sur le plan methodologique, ce travail s’appuie d’une part, sur une application de la demarche initiee par Ioannides et Overman (2003) permettant d’etablir une relation non parametrique entre le taux de croissance des villes et la taille urbaine et d’autre part, sur une analyse de la convergence des tailles urbaines chinoises. Ce travail montre que sous un regime de controle des migrations, la croissance urbaine depend de la demographie des villes et conduit a une convergence des tailles urbaines. A partir des reformes de 1993 et l’assouplissement de ces controles, la croissance urbaine chinoise emprunte une marche aleatoire.

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