This paper uses the Shapley Value decomposition technique to assess the factors behind the rise of inequality in China …. It finds that, in many ways, inequality may have been an inevitable by-product of China’s investment and export …. Across China’s provinces, divergences in per capita incomes are driven by the relative level of capital-intensity, public …

This paper is the first comprehensive empirical study of earnings, income, and consumption inequality in urban China … transition in urban China …

China's high national savings rate-one of the highest in the world-is at the heart of its external/internal imbalances …

We analyze the impact on productivity in advanced economies of fast-growing trade with China between the mid-1990s and … economies and, similar to Autor, Dorn, and Hanson (2013), exploit exogenous variation in trade with China in a given country …-sector by instrumenting imports from (exports to) China in a given country-sector with the average imports from (exports to …

A more market-oriented labor market has emerged in China in the past twenty years with growing importance of the urban … exists in the rural sector and state-owned enterprises. The main challenge facing China’s labor market in coming years is to …

As China implements reforms under the "new normal," maintaining stability in the labor market is a priority. The …