Urban-rural Linkage Research Articles

社会余剰最大化の土地利用モデルを活用した都市と近郊農村の環境連携の評価 : 三遠南信地域における社会統計データを用いたケーススタディ

This research was performed on methods to promote integration between urban and rural sectors in the San En Nan Shin region using an Urban-Rural Linkage Model that investigates social surplus maximization, effects of introducing an environmental tax, and transport cost minimization due to land use transformation in a fallow agricultural region. Land use transformation was studied in terms of (1) an economic priority model,(2) an environmental harmonization model, and (3) a balanced model. Economic and environmental outcomes including the impact on price from the environmental tax were quantitatively analyzed for each case.

Social-Capital Mobilization and Income Returns to Entrepreneurship: The Case of Return Migration in Rural China

Temporary labor migration in developing countries is an important urban–rural linkage that has a potential impact on rural development. According to the new economies of labor migration, it is often a strategy used by families with small farms to acquire investment capital for future business formation. In this paper, I argue further that human-capital accretion during migration reinforces the mobilization of local social capital, which in turn enhances a returnee's entrepreneurship. By using the results of an in-depth survey of returned labor migrants in rural China, I seek to explain the mobilization of social capital and income return to entrepreneurship in a multivariate framework. I find that skilled returnees are indeed more prone to mobilize social capital. The income return to local social capital is as considerable as that to investment capital and skills acquired at the urban destination. The findings suggest that the consequences of labor migration can be better understood through the integration of the new economics of labor migration and social capital