RESEARCH AREAS
- Community and Economic Development
- Urban Labor Market and Inequality
- Migration and Entrepreneurship
- International Urban Development
BOOK
Liu, C. Y. ed. (2020) Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Cities: Global Perspectives. Springer
Grant, B., Liu, C. Y., and Ye, L. eds. (2018) Metropolitan Governance in Asia and the Pacific Rim: Borders, Challenges, Futures. Springer
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES * student co-author
Kim, M., Liu, C. Y. and Li. B. Blurring the Lines between Public and Nonprofit Sectors: Local Efforts to Make Inclusive Communities. State and Local Government Review, forthcoming.
Liu, C. Y. and *Nazareno, L. State Responses during COVID-19 Pandemic and their Impact on Small Businesses. Small Business Economics, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-024-00923-1
Liu, C. Y. and Zhao, J. Z. (2024) Transit Investment and Income Inequality in U.S. Metropolitan Areas. Journal of Planning Education and Research, forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X231209498
Van Holm, E., Huang, X., and Liu, C. Y. (2023) Moving Against the Tide: Immigrant Reactions to Sub-National Policy Changes. State and Local Government Review, 56 (2): 115-136.
Hyde, A., Liu, C. Y., McDaniel, P. N., Rodriguez, D. X., and *Holms, B. (2023) Welcoming Immigrant Integration Beyond the Local Level: Atlanta’s One Region Initiative. Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and the City, 4 (1): 77-110.
Liu, C. Y., Doussard, M., and Lowe, N. (2023) Fixing Work, and Moving Beyond It. Economic Development Quarterly, 37 (1): 64-72.
*Nazareno, L., Zegura, E., and Liu, C. Y. (2022) Changes in Broadband Infrastructure in Rural Georgia During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Information Policy, volume 12: 321–352.
*Nazareno, L. and Liu, C. Y. (2022) The Geography of Nonstandard Employment across U. S. Metropolitan Areas. Journal of Urban Affairs,46 (2): 319-336.
Liu, C. Y. and *Jeong, J. (2022) Are Minority-owned Businesses Moving to Suburbs? Intrametropolitan Spatial Shifts and Their Causes. Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship,36 (4): 574-598.
Liu, C. Y., Hu. F. Z. and *Jeong, J. (2020) Towards Inclusive Urban Development? New Knowledge/Creative Economy and Wage Inequality in Major Chinese Cities. Cities, (105): Article 102385.
*Jeong, J. and Liu, C. Y. (2020) Neighborhood Diversity and Food Access in a Changing Urban Spatial Structure. City & Community, 19 (4): 963-986.
Cheng, S., Guo, H. and Liu, C. Y. (2020) Incentivized for Leveling the Playing Field: Do State Economic Incentives Compensate for High Taxes? Economic Development Quarterly, 34 (2): 101-115 (lead article, Special Issue: Learning More about Incentives)
Huang, X. and Liu, C. Y. (2019) Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Economic Development: A Local Policy Perspective. Journal of the American Planning Association, 85 (4): 564-584.
Liu, C. Y. and *Nazareno, L. (2019) The Changing Quality of Nonstandard Employment: Does Skill Matter? The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 5 (4): 104-128.
Liu, C. Y. and *van Holm, E. (2019) The Geography of Occupational Concentration among Low-Skilled Immigrants. Economic Development Quarterly, 33 (2): 107-120.
Chen, Y. and Liu, C. Y. (2019) Self-employed Migrants and Their Entrepreneurial Space in Megacities: A Beijing Farmers’ Market. Habitat International, 83 (1): 125-134.
Liu, C. Y., Chen, J., and Li, H. (2019) Linking Migrant Enclave Residence to Employment in Urban China: The Case of Shanghai. Journal of Urban Affairs, 41 (2): 189-205.
Liu, C. Y., Ye, L., and *Feng, B. (2019) Migrant Entrepreneurship in China: Entrepreneurial Transition and Firm Performances. Small Business Economics, 52 (3): 681-696.
*Huang, X. and Liu, C. Y. (2018) Welcoming Cities: Immigration Policy at the Local Government Level. Urban Affairs Review, 54 (1): 3-32. blogpost link
Hu, Y., Liu, C. Y., and Chen, T. (2017) Ecological Improvement and Community Participation: Lessons from Xiaoqing River Ecological Improvement Project in Jinan, China. Community Development Journal, 52 (1): 21-37 (Special Issue: Community Development in East and South-East Asia).
Liu, C. Y. and *Huang, X. (2016) The Rise of Urban Entrepreneurs in China: Capital Endowments and Entry Dynamics. Growth and Change, 47 (1): 32-52 (Special Issue: Economic Transition, Urban Dynamics and Economic Development in China).
Wang, Q., and Liu, C. Y. (2015) The Transnational Activities of Immigrant-Owned Firms and Their Performances in the USA. Small Business Economics, 44 (2): 345-359.
Liu, C. Y. and *Edwards, J. (2015) Immigrant Employment through the Great Recession: Individual Characteristics and Metropolitan Contexts. The Social Science Journal, 52 (3): 405-414 (Special Issue on Economics, Methods, and Policy).
Liu, C. Y., *Miller, J., and Wang, Q. (2014) Ethnic Enterprises and Community Development. GeoJournal, 79 (5): 565-576.
Zhu, P., Liu, C. Y., and Painter, G. (2014) Does Residence in an Ethnic Community Help Immigrants in a Recession. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 47 (July): 112-127.
Lewis, G., Liu, C. Y., and *Edwards, J. (2014) The Representation of Immigrants in Federal, State and Local Government Work Forces. Journal of International Migration and Integration, 15 (3): 469-486.
Liu, C. Y. and *Xie, W. (2013) Creativity and Inequality: The Dual Path of China’s Urban Economy? Growth and Change, 44 (4): 608-630.
Liu, C. Y. (2013) Latino Immigration and the Low-skill Urban Labor Market: The Case of Atlanta. Social Science Quarterly, 94 (1) 137-151.
Zhao, Z., *Huang, X., Liu, C. Y., Wang, G., and Xu, L. (2013) Literature on China Urban Studies in International Journals: 2000-2012. Journal of Public Administration (in Chinese), 6 (1): 118 – 147.
*Kolenda, R. and Liu, C. Y. (2012) Are Central Cities More Creative? The Intrametropolitan Geography of Creative Industries. Journal of Urban Affairs, 24 (5): 487-511.
Liu, C. Y. (2012) From Los Angeles to Shanghai: Testing the Applicability of Five Urban Paradigms. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 36 (6): 1127-1145 (lead article).
Liu, C. Y. (2012) The Causes and Dynamics of Minority Entrepreneurial Entry. Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, 17 (1):125003-1-23.
Liu, C. Y. (2012) Intrametropolitan Opportunity Structure and the Self-employment of Asian and Latino Immigrants. Economic Development Quarterly, 26 (2):178-192.
Liu, C. Y. and *Kolenda, R. (2012) Counting and Understanding the Contingent Workforce: Using Georgia as an Example. Urban Studies, 49 (5): 1003-1025.
Liu, C. Y. and Painter, G. (2012) Immigrant Settlement and Employment Suburbanization: Is There a Spatial Mismatch. Urban Studies, 49 (5): 979-1002.
Liu, C. Y. and Painter, G. (2012) Travel Behavior among Latino Immigrants: The Role of Ethnic Concentration and Ethnic Employment. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 32 (1): 62-80.
Liu, C. Y. (2011) Employment Concentration and Job Quality for Low-Skilled Latino Immigrants. Journal of Urban Affairs, 33 (2): 117-142 (lead article). (Reprinted in “Immigration, Ethnicity, and the Life of Cities”, Journal of Urban Affairs Virtual Issue, June 2012.)
Liu, C. Y., *Kolenda, R, *Fitzpatrick, G, and *Todd, T. (2010) Re-Creating New Orleans: Driving Development through Creativity. Economic Development Quarterly 24 (3): 261-275.
Liu, C. Y. (2009) Ethnic Enclave Residence, Employment, and Commuting of Latino Workers. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 28 (4): 600-625. (Reprinted in “Home Sweet Home: Recent Research in Housing & Community Development Policy”, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management Virtual Issue, October 2010.)
Painter, G., Liu, C. Y., and Zhuang, D. (2007) Immigrants and Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis: Employment Outcomes among Immigrant Youth in Los Angeles. Urban Studies 44 (13): 2627-2649.
Myers, D. and Liu, C. Y. (2005) The Emerging Dominance of Immigrants in the United States Housing Market 1970-2000. Urban Policy and Research 23 (3): 347 – 365.
Liu, C. Y. (2004) Immigrants’ Economic Mobility in California from a Demographic Perspective. Chicago Policy Review 8 (1): 43 – 57.
REFEREED BOOK CHAPTERS
Liu, C. Y. and *Renzy, R. (2024) Suburbanization and Migrant Entrepreneurship in the United States. In Triandafyllidou, A. et al (eds.): Migration and Cities: Conceptual and Policy Advances. IMISCOE Springer Series. Link
Liu, C. Y. (2020) Introduction: Immigrant Entrepreneurship Research from a Comparative Perspective. In Liu, C. Y. (ed.) Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Cities: Global Perspectives. Springer. Link
*Forbes, L. and Liu, C. Y. (2020) Migrant Entrepreneurship and Urban Development in Global Cities. In Liu, C. Y. (ed.) Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Cities: Global Perspectives. Springer. Link
Liu, C. Y., and *Xie, W. (2018) Creativity and Inequality: The Dual Path of China’s Urban Development. In Ye. L. (ed.): Urbanization and Urban Governance in China: Issues, Challenges, and Development. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. Link
Liu, C. Y., Painter, G., and Wang, Q. (2015) Immigrant Entrepreneurship and Agglomeration in High-Tech Industries in the U.S. In Karlsson, C., Gråsjö, U. and Wixe, S. (eds.): Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy: Knowledge, Technology and Internationalization. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. Link
Liu, C. Y. (2014) Intra-metropolitan Opportunity Structure and Immigrant Self-employment. In Zhang, J. and Duncan, H. (Eds.): Migration in China and Asia: Experience and Policy. New York: Springer. Link
Waugh, W. and Liu, C. Y. (2014). Disasters, the Whole Community, and Development as Capacity Building. In Kapucu, N. and Liou, K. T. (eds.): Disasters & Development: Examining Global Issues and Cases. New York, NY: Springer. Link
REPORTS
Su, M., Chen, C., and Liu, C. Y. (2023) The Fiscal Impact of Municipal Administrative Center Relocation: Evidence from Chinese Prefectural Cities. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Working Paper WP23MS1, May 2023
Boston, T. D., Ross, C. L., Liu, C. Y., Adebola, O., and Huber, G. (2019) Research and Support to Implement Recommendations of the GDOT Small Business Program Evaluation. Georgia Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration Report #FHWA-GA-20-1707, October 2019. http://g92018.eos-intl.net/eLibSQL14_G92018_Documents/17-07.pdf
Huang, X. and Liu, C. Y. (2016) Welcoming Cities: Immigration Policy at the Local Government Level. The Center for State and Local Finance (CSLF) Report #28, September 2016.
Liu, C. Y., Chen, J., and Li. H. (2016) The Segmentation of Urban Housing and Labor Markets in China: The Case of Shanghai. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Working Paper WP 16CL1, May 2016.
Liu, C. Y. (2014) Minority-Owned and Immigrant-Owned Businesses in Georgia’s Economy. The Center for State and Local Finance (CSLF) Report #7, November 2014.
Liu, C. Y., Painter, G., and Wang, Q. (2014) Lessons for U.S. Metro Areas: Characteristics and Clustering of High-Tech Immigrant Entrepreneurs. Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation white paper, March, 2014.
Liu, C. Y. (2013) Georgia’s High-Technology Industry and Innovation Capacity. Fiscal Research Center Report No. 262, September, 2013.
Liu, C. Y. and *Kolenda, R. (2011) Flexible Work Arrangements in Georgia: Characteristics and Trends. Fiscal Research Center Report No. 236, July, 2011.
Liu, C. Y. (2010) Latino Immigration and the Low-Skill Urban Labor Market in Atlanta. Fiscal Research Center Report No. 219, December, 2010.
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