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 …

influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for … ; inequality ; social protection ; China …

We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China …). We use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) pilot data to document health conditions among the … China, particularly so for the aged. In general education tends to be positively correlated with better health outcomes, as …

less on developing countries and very little on China involving migrant workers in spite of their growing practical and … search procedures used by migrant workers in China by taking advantage of a rich data set on migrant workers that has … in China. However, our IV results suggest that the OLS estimates are subject to severe selection bias from the fact that …

Since China promulgated new minimum wage regulations in 2004, the magnitude and frequency of changes in the minimum … changes in China over the period of 2004 to 2009. In contrast to the mixed results of previous studies using provincial … Central regions of China, and result in disemployment for females, young adults, and low-skilled workers. …

implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made …

returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to …

We provide evidence that promotion incentives influence the effort of public employees by studying China's system of …

children from one of China's poorest provinces, we find that both cognitive and noncognitive skills, measured when children are …