(15BGL215):国家社会科学基金项目
(15BGL215):National Social Science Foundation
(CCNU16A02013,CCNU16JCZX09):华中师范大学基本科研业务费专项资金项目
(CCNU16A02013,CCNU16JCZX09):Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities in Central China Normal University
Migration is an endogenous result and also an endogenous factor of regional socio-economic development. Using the county-level data of the fifth and sixth census, the spatial-temporal pattern of the distribution of inter-county immigrants in Hubei province is analyzed, and the endogenous mechanism is explored based on the New Economic Geography framework. It shows that immigrants has being concentrated to the city municipal districts and their adjacent regions since 2000, which enlarged the gap but decreased the degree of agglomeration of distribution of immigrants between counties in Hubei pr...