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...

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...