The Enigma of Under-urbanization:An Explanation Based on International Trade

城市化滞后之谜:基于国际贸易的解释（英文）

To study the relationship between under-urbanization and international trade, we set up a model of the transfer of surplus rural labor in an open economy using 1995-2010 data from 40 countries and regions where industrialization was incomplete. Our findings indicate that if, in an open economy, there is a substantial labor surplus and in which domestic goods and services can be sold to foreign markets, there will be a significantly positive correlation between the net export ratio and the degree to which urbanization lags behind industrialization; countries or regions with higher marketization level, lower urban unemployment rate and poorer public health facilities are more likely to be under- urbanized; and an inverted U-shaped relationship exists between under-urbanization and percapita GDR

构建开放经济下农村剩余劳动力转移模型,运用1995-2010年40个未完成工业化国家和地区的数据,研究城市化滞后与国际贸易的关系发现:在开放经济体系下,若国内存在大量剩余劳动力,且本国产品及服务可向国外市场出售,则该国城市化率滞后于工业化率的程度与净出口比例显著正相关;市场化水平越高、城市失业率越低、卫生设施改善越少的国家或地区,出现滞后城市化的可能性也越高;滞后城市化与人均GDP存在"倒U型"关系。