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

; anthropometrics ; Hindu ; Muslim ; India …

other states in India. It then performs a regression exercise using a panel data of Indian states to identify the correlates … accorded priority by the policymakers in Bihar. -- education ; enrollment ; out-of-school ; Bihar ; India …

This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son …

This paper tries to document the presence of unreported income among public sector employees in India. We investigate … regression ; India …

Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …

most striking difference is that, in India, we do not find any significant reactions to asymmetric non-employment shocks at … the response to unemployment shocks in these economies. In India, the unemployment rate does not seem to be a reliable … to regional wage differentials in India at both the state and district level. …

We investigate the public-private wage differential in India using nationally representative micro data. While the …. -- quantile regression ; public-private wage differential ; India …

China's favourable labour supply flowing from the "demographic dividend": a larger share of working age population (WAPS …). Currently, this dividend is slipping away and many in China are very concerned. Against this background I set out to examine the … contributions of various dimensions of China's changing WAPS and its impact on economic growth. I show that between 1982-2015 the …

While China shared many systemic, initial conditions with the transition economies of Central-East Europe (CEE) and the … CEE and CIS countries. Unlike most of the CEE and CIS economies, China adopted a strategy of gradual economic … transformation that maintained the existing system and created new economic activities on top of it. This enabled China to avoid the …