”, indicating that taking a relatively good position benefits people in the Chinese society. RD is also a pressing issue for China … reviews key measures of RD and empirical findings for China. I also discuss some of the most pressing policy issues with …

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …

This paper approaches the problem of inequalities in China. It is specifically focused on analyzing the effects of …. One, more “European”, or “social/Christian/democratic” is that too much inequality is morally hard to accept and also bad …, economic inequality is not a reason for concern, that it is inevitable (reflecting varying endowments of individuals) and in …

less efficient. However, so far this question is difficult to analyse for China since we lack information on one of the … the provinces of China between 1922 and 2010. Using our new dataset, together with physical capital and per capita GDP …, whereas until the reform period China was largely driven by capital accumulation, afterwards general technical development got …

benefit payments compared to the wage earned in available jobs - labour supply and matching - a theoretical approach to …

This paper develops a model of costly trade and team production to examine the matching behavior of skilled workers in … teams available for hire. Trade is shown to rationalize the matching behavior of workers, causing skill-upgrading within …