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

Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where … earnings reach a maximum at a lower age than in China. The association between education and income in China has increased to …

a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …

-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers … residents in China and in urban Russia to be very similar. …Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent …

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 …

, Brazil and Uruguay, relying on high quality matched employer-employee administrative data. Downward nominal wage rigidities … are more important in Uruguay, while wage indexation is dominant in Brazil. Two regime changes are observed during the … more pronounced; and (ii) in Brazil, the introduction of inflation targeting by the Central Bank in 1999 shifts the focal …

combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we …