. -- Migration ; self-selection ; income distribution ; China …

that has caused the skill price to rise, especially in the earlier period. Another finding is that China’s export share of … latter period from 2002 to 2007, highlighting the impact of China’s entry into the WTO. -- Urban China ; residual inequality …

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 …

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 …

From 1995 to 2005, the average urban household saving rate in China rose by 8 percentage points, to about one quarter …

Since the second half of the 1990s economic restructuring in urban China has led to widespread joblessness and income … survey covering large parts of urban China in 2002, we investigate factors affecting receipt and how receipt affects urban … while having been sent to rural China during the Cultural Revolution increases it. For some types of households, receipt of …

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 …

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …

policies in China. We find that again consistent with the agency view, earnings-tenure profiles are considerably steeper for …