Industry mean wages in China have exhibited sharply increased dispersion since the early 1990s. The upward trend in … contributed to wage inequality due monopoly rent sharing. We show that the industrial wage dispersion in China has evolved to …

income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese … China's IKC generates patents in China, but fewer than in major industrialized economies. Among domestically owned …

China is a boost in social status (vice-ministerial level) with negligible economic impact (US$30 monthly before 2009 …

a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …-time variation in rates of return as a function of the timing, speed, and volatility of reform processes as well as estimation … in returns to schooling during the early reform period reflects the ability of highly-educated individuals to respond to …

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …

returns to schooling for college graduates during China’s reform between 1988 and 2002. We find that there were substantial … results is that labor and education reform without concomitant capital market reform and government support for the …