that has caused the skill price to rise, especially in the earlier period. Another finding is that China’s export share of … latter period from 2002 to 2007, highlighting the impact of China’s entry into the WTO. -- Urban China ; residual inequality …

We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics …-intensive and labor-intensive industries have widened. Comparisons of international data show that China's manufacturing wage has … already converged to that of Asian emerging markets, but China still enjoys enormous labor cost advantages over its …

the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household … reforms and technological changes that increased the relative demand for skill. -- Education ; earnings ; inequality ; China …

policies in China. We find that again consistent with the agency view, earnings-tenure profiles are considerably steeper for …

surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize … characteristics. -- China ; Communist Party ; labour market ; economic transition ; wages …

inequality ; China …

Rapid education expansion and rising income inequality are two striking phenomena occurring in China during the … transitional period. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data collected in 1997 and 2006, this paper studies how … effect. In explaining the earning gap in China, the price effect is more important than the population effect. The labor …

endogeneity problem our results show that rural migrants in urban China have modest positive or zero effects on the average … adverse impact of migration on urban native labour market outcomes. -- migration ; native labour market outcomes ; China …

We use household surveys from 1995, 2002, and 2007 to examine how changes in job structure contributed to China … institutional features influence job structure and wage inequality. -- job structure ; wage inequality ; urban China ; decomposition …