Bargain, Olivier; Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2008
This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … effects explains why Chinese wages have caught up, especially since the mid-1990s. The price effect is only partly explained … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of …