Fifty years ago, China sent more than 16 million urban youths aged 16-19 to rural villages to work and they spent …

We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics …-intensive and labor-intensive industries have widened. Comparisons of international data show that China's manufacturing wage has … already converged to that of Asian emerging markets, but China still enjoys enormous labor cost advantages over its …

China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …

versus China, in assessing the detail of the contribution of sectoral mean and inequality evolution to overall inequality …

, especially those related to having an open capital account, do not loom large in the case of China. In the process of securing …, especially those related to having an open capital account, do not loom large in the case of China. In the process of securing …

China's remarkable run of persistently high growth in recent decades is all the more stunning in light of the country …

America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004, and carries out "second-generation" tests for non-stationary panels …