de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …

of the location and timing of Wal-Mart openings that most likely biases the evidence against finding adverse effects of …

new technological paradigm, which delayed their industrialization and, hence, their take-off to a state of sustained … development in the agricultural stage but has had a negative impact on income per capita in the course of industrialization; and … economic development in the process of industrialization. …

industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …

Despite a more recent debate about ever deeper segmentation, we argue that since industrialization, Germany has …

Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural …

In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three … years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential …

Since China promulgated new minimum wage regulations in 2004, the magnitude and frequency of changes in the minimum … changes in China over the period of 2004 to 2009. In contrast to the mixed results of previous studies using provincial … Central regions of China, and result in disemployment for females, young adults, and low-skilled workers. …

Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … earnings reach a maximum at a lower age than in China. The association between education and income in China has increased to … while the publically employed in China enjoy a positive payoff of limited magnitude. …