This article places urban industrial reform in China in its broad historical context. The reform initiatives to date are a direct reaction to shortcomings of planning. While decentralization and increased reliance on markets and short-range managerial decisionmaking are more commonly noted in...

This article focuses on the role of real and money wages in a state’s growth (macro) and location (micro) prospects. Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey for 2000 were used first to indirectly estimate state cost-of-living (COL) indices....