This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty … in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and … researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until recently had a dual system of household surveys - one rural and one urban …

, lost an average of more than 50 percent of potential earnings. Both genders suffered reduced attainment of senior high …. However, these education responses do not appear to have translated into lower earnings. In addition, at each level of … certificate attained, the impact on earnings of these missed years of schooling or lack of normal curricula was small. …

payoff to schooling in the growing literature on earnings determination in China. The payoffs to actual years of schooling …This paper examines the gender differential in the payoff to schooling in China. The analyses are conducted separately … education in rural China is much higher for females than for males. Associated with this, the wage penalty where workers are …

the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of …

), infrastructure indicators (telephone density, electricity consumption), telecommunications pricing measures, and regulatory quality …. With the exception of trade openness and the telecom pricing measures, these variables enter in as statistically …

We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of … height on life-time earnings for men. Additional findings using capital income as the outcome variable suggest that …

between literacy, numeracy and monthly gross earnings of full-time employed workers. We use data from the ALWA survey …, augmented by test scores on basic cognitive skills as well as administrative earnings data. Our results indicate that earnings …

subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor … that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor …