We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics …-intensive and labor-intensive industries have widened. Comparisons of international data show that China's manufacturing wage has … already converged to that of Asian emerging markets, but China still enjoys enormous labor cost advantages over its …

quality played an important role in raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997 …. -- product cycle ; ownership structure ; contract environment ; export variety ; processing trade ; China …