Yang, DennisTao; Chen, VivianWeijia; Monarch, Ryan - In: Pacific Economic Review 15 (2010) 4, pp. 482-504
We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics. Although real wages increased seven-fold during the period, growth was uneven across ownership types, industries and regions. Over the past decade, the wages of state-owned...