This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of … the wage distribution. -- China ; India ; earnings ; returns to education ; quantile regression ; Oaxaca …

While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others … and western China for 1995 and 2002. For 2002, persons of high rank make up 3 percent and persons of middle rank make up … middle ranks. -- China ; rank ; income ; income inequality …

biases. Benefiting from a special feature of the University Admission system in China, which has clear cutoffs for university … average treatment effects might understate the true effects of the university expansion program introduced in China in 1999 … and thereafter. -- Rate of return to education ; regression discontinuity design ; China …

Using a 1/5 random draw of the 1% census of 2005, we investigate how China’s higher education expansion commenced in … school graduate. That of the college graduate deceased, but only slightly and not significantly. -- China ; higher education …

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 …

returns to schooling for college graduates during China's reform between 1988 and 2002. We find that there were substantial …