1. Introduction and Overview -- 2. Evolution and Effects Assessment of China’s Minimum Wage Policy -- 3. Minimum Wages in China: Standard and Implication -- 4. Minimum Wages and Employment in China -- 5. Impacts of Minimum Wages on Gender Wage Gaps in Urban China -- 6. The Impact of Minimum...

1. Introduction: Background and Overview -- 2. What Caused the Decline in Immigrant Entry Earnings? -- 3. The Immigrant Human Capital Investment Model -- 4. Methodological Implications of a Human Capital Investment Perspective -- 5. The Earnings Growth of Asian versus European Immigrants -- 6....

Introduction -- Practices and Changes in China’s Income Distribution over the Last 40 Years -- Total Size and Pattern of China’s Income Distribution over the Last 40 Years -- Causes and Explanations of Changes in China’s Income Distribution Pattern over the Last 40 Years -- Debates over...

This book explores trends of inequality and poverty in China, identifies their causes and assesses their consequences, analyzing in detail the regional/personal variation in incomes, measures of human wellbeing, the gap between the coastal regions and the interior regions, and urban-rural disparity

INTRODUCTION -- Chapter1. Long-run inequality trends and cycles and the recent inequality downturn in Latin America -- PART I. LONG-RUN TRENDS -- Chapter 2. Functional Inequality in Latin America: News from the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Income Inequality in Chile...

Evenly convex sets - Linear systems containing strict inequalities -- Evenly convex polyhedra - Finite linear systems containing strict inequalities -- Evenly quasiconvex functions -- Evenly convex functions -- Extensions to infinite-dimensional spaces.

1. Poverty and Deprivation in America -- 2. A Survey of Related Literature -- 3. Measuring Multidimensional Poverty -- 4. A Profile of the Multidimensionally Poor in America -- 5. Variation in Multidimensional Poverty across Demographic Cohorts -- 6. Variation in Multidimensional Poverty across...

Part I Productivity Measurement -- 1. Productivity Measurement – Past, Present and Future -- 2. Symmetric Decompositions of Aggregate Output and Labour Productivity Growth: On Levels, (Non-) Additivity, and Misallocation -- 3. Efficiency Analysis with Stochastic Frontier Models using Popular...

Chapter 1: Overview of the 2 Sector Mahalanobis Model -- Chapter 2: Critiques of the 2 Sector Mahalanobis Model -- Chapter 3: A Stochastic Version of the 2 Sector Mahalanobis Model -- Chapter 4: Open Economy Extensions of the 2-sector Mahalanobis Model -- Chapter 5: Overview of the 4 Sector...

Introduction -- The Neoclassical GrowthModel Under a Constant Savings Rate -- Optimal Growth: Continuous Time Analysis -- Optimal Growth: Discrete Time Analysis -- Numerical Solution Methods -- Endogenous Growth Models -- Additional Endogenous Growth Models -- Growth in Monetary Economies:...