By using a large new panel of individual data, including objective measures of worker performance, we provide some of the most rigorous evidence to date on several related dimensions of enduring debates surrounding upward-sloping earnings-tenure profiles. Most importantly we provide the first...

This paper provides the first systematic analysis of the reasons why women endure longer unemployment durations than men in post-restructuring urban China using data obtained from a national representative household survey. Rejecting the view that women are less earnest than men in their desire...

In this paper we explore the intersectionality of religious and ethnic norms and gender relations across the domestic and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in their parents' off-farm work decisions for three...

In this paper we explore the intersectionality of religious and ethnic norms and gender relations across the domestic and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in their parents' off-farm work decisions for three...

In this paper we explore the intersectionality of religious and ethnic norms and gender relations across the domestic and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in their parents' off-farm work decisions for three...

This article surveys the major rural policy changes that have occurred in China over the past two decades and analyses the results from national surveys to obtain a picture of the changes in rural labour allocation, income and poverty levels, and income inequality over the period 1991-2011. We...

This paper examines the magnitude, patterns, and determinants of the labor restructuring process in China's industrial sector using a firm-level dataset for the period between 1998 and 2002. The results show that the SOE sector has undergone substantial labor retrenchment. The removal of...