China's Township and Village Enterprises (TVEs) have performed remarkably well during the post-1979 period. However, agreement on their organizational and behavioral characteristics and the reasons for their success remains elusive. For some, TVEs are simply private enterprises in disguise and...

While broad consensus exists that earnings inequality increased in Canada during the 1980s, as in other industrialised countries, there is little agreement about the causes. The main contribution of this paper is the simultaneous, empirical examination of eight hypotheses of increased earnings...

Interest in the possible emergence of an East Asian trading bloc is certainly warranted. However, in the absence of any well-developed theory of regional bloc formation, most economists have studied the question by examining aggregate trade statistics. We argue that these studies provide only a...

This paper investigates the effects of the reforms in China's financial sector on enterprise performance. Particular attention is paid to the effect of the increased role played by banks as a result of the major reorganization of the banking system which occurred in 1984. It is argued that,...

China's economic transition has fundamentally changed the mechanisms for allocating and compensating labour. This paper investigates how the economic transition has affected the wage gap between mothers and childless women in urban China using panel data for the period 1990–2005. The results...