and became more productive following the implementation of NAFTA. Plants that exported before NAFTA and export … export status and provides an explanation for the lackluster average productivity performance of exporting plants. …

and account for a small share of gross, industry-level changes in exports, employment, output, and productivity. The … dynamics at the intensive margin is intense and heterogeneous. Plant mobility across deciles of export distribution has an …, similar shares of plants gradually move up and down the export ladder and changes in plants' relative position in the …

Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality …

attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth … effect of family size on children’s education. We also find that the effect of family size is more evident in rural China …

While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others … and western China for 1995 and 2002. For 2002, persons of high rank make up 3 percent and persons of middle rank make up …

Poverty among ethnic minorities and the majority in rural China for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 is investigated … proportion among the ethnic majority was only about half as high. Still, by far most of the poor in rural China belong to the … ethnic majority. The relatively high poverty rates for ethnic minorities in rural China are found to be due to higher rates …

Despite the intensive efforts made by economists to examine regional income inequality in China, limited attention has … in urban China over the period 1986 to 2001. Spatial Price Index (SPI) is normally calculated using the Basket Cost … those obtained from the Basket Cost method. Further, regional price variations in urban China increased significantly during …