This paper examines whether industrial growth during economic development is associated with a high workplace fatality rate by using panel data from China. Controlling for provincial and year fixed effects, our estimations show that provincial industrial growth has a positive impact on the...

This paper examines the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth by using a panel data set of 29 provinces in China over 20years. Two indicators of entrepreneurship are defined and introduced into the traditional growth regression framework that is estimated using the system generalized...

This paper analyzes gender earnings gaps in Hong Kong using the 2006 by-census data. To explore the sources of gender earnings gaps, we decompose the gaps using the method proposed by Machado and Mata (2005). We have three major findings. First, gender earnings gaps are larger both in lower...