The literature on China indicates that the concentration of economic activities in China is less than in other … industrialized countries. Institutional limits are largely held responsible for this finding (e.g. the Hukou system); firms and … workers are not able to take full advantage of the benefits from agglomeration economies. China is changing rapidly, however …

contribution to the growth in foreign intermediate goods in the 2001-2014 period. China has strongly contributed to the rise in … Labour Force Survey and obtain a dataset of 12 European countries and 2001-2007 period. I show that IT imports from China are … associated with lower IT prices in European countries. The fall in IT prices has increased the demand for high wage occupations …

textile and clothing products in conjunction with China's accession to the WTO as a quasi-natural experiment and utilize …

The large regional variation in minimum wage levels in the period 2002-08 in China implies that Chinese manufacturing …

Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers …

into urban areas, as well as the importance of shifts in demand for skills. Both forces explain the dramatic drop in urban …