been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process often referred to as industrial upgrading …-level empirical research on the determinants of upgrading in developing countries. The first part focuses on how to define and measure … various dimensions of upgrading - learning, quality upgrading, technology adoption, and product innovation. The second part …

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

This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China … segmented urban labor markets in China. All displaced workers have an increased likelihood of being informal, while only …

This paper constructs a theoretical labor market model for China, and utilizes the model to examine the effects of … three sectors - state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, and agriculture - and China's unique household registration …

with health shocks. Exploiting the rollout of a universal health insurance program in rural China, I find that total …

unique opportunity due to the recent establishment and expansion of the social pension system in rural China, we explicitly … highlight that living arrangement is multidimensional in rural China. …

Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we examine how individual wages change in line with … education in China appear to be zero. We estimate an instrumental variables fixed effects model where share of college graduates … China and targeting it more toward poorly educated workers. …

. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China (RUMiC) data we are able to measure the share of children's lifetime during …

Migration of any distance separates family members for long periods of time. In China, an institutional legacy …