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 …

existing studies, we analyze the sources and causes of China's high and rising saving rates in the government, corporate, and … household sectors. Although the causes of China's high saving are complex, we suggest that the evolving economic, demographic …

Over the last decade, the internal and external macroeconomic imbalances in China have risen to unprecedented levels …. In 2008, China's national savings rate soared to over 53 percent of its GDP, whereas its current account surplus exceeded …, the accession of China to the World Trade Organization has dramatically amplified the effects of these structural …

structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under … investigated in the context of household saving decisions in China. …

jointly contributed to the upsurge in aggregate savings in China in the past two decades. Government policies to rebalance the …

We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large … be expected from further migration and urbanisation in China. …

raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997-2007. …

This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. We first present a simple …

This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of … families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) survey, we assess the impact of … find that remittances supplement income in rural China and lead to increased consumption rather than increased investment …

This paper assesses the applicability of two alternative theories in understanding labor market developments in China … validate the arrival of the Lewis turning point in China, showing continuous and coordinated wage growth across rural and urban … markets in China. …