Working paper on trends in rural women's labour force participation and fertility patterns in China. Examines rural … development policy based on the responsibility of the individual, household or work brigade for agricultural production. Covers … women workers in agricultural employment and rural industry, household income, living conditions, marriage, family planning …

China during the reform period. It appears that the patent laws have produced a stock of patents, where the success rates of … which factors would explain innovation in China. We find the main determinants of patents to be R&D expenditure and foreign … laws in China have been associated with innovation that has accompanied economic growth despite imperfections in the legal …

China has had a remarkably high ratio of investment to output throughout the period of economic reform, surpassing … determinant of China's high rate of economic growth.  This survey paper gathers together the available evidence to explain why …

In China urban residents have traditionally been protected against labour market competition from rural-urban migrants …

China's economy grew at an average annual real growth rate of 9 percent over the last three decades.  Despite the vast … cross-country regressions include China and none of them particularly focuses on the explanation of China's remarkable … extent to which the growth difference between China and other countries can be explained by the augmented Solow model.  The …

A national household survey for 2002, containing a specially designed module on subjective well-being, is used to … estimate pioneering happiness functions in rural China. The variables predicted by economic theory to be important for … understand. Rural China is not a hotbed of dissatisfaction with life, possibly because most people are found to confine their …

In this paper we attempt to explore some indirect determinants of China's growth success including the degree of … selection, BMA and GETS, to consider a wide range of candidate predictors of growth in China.  Then variables flagged as being … productive efficiency have been an important part of the explanation for China's remarkable rate of growth. …

nature of employment in urban China. The system of allocated, lifelong jobs (the iron rice bowl) that had previously … in China appears not to have been researched, no doubt because there was so little until recently. Using an urban … household survey for 1999 that has rich data on job duration, job change and the reasons for it, we provide a first analysis of …

This paper investigates the traits of the self-employed entrepreneurs in urban China, an economy rife with …