households in China. The authors find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption …

In its gradual approach to economic transition, China deferred the difficult process of restructuring state owned … enterprises (SOEs) until the mid-1990s. When restructuring of large scale SOEs accelerated after 1997, China witnessed sharp …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality and poverty in China from 1987 to 2002 …, documenting significant increases of inequality within China's urban and rural populations. In rural areas, increased inequality … restructuring have fueled the growth in inequality within urban areas. Poverty levels, however, are very low. China should give more …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality and poverty in China from 1987 to 2002 …, documenting significant increases of inequality within China's urban and rural populations. In rural areas, increased inequality … restructuring have fueled the growth in inequality within urban areas. Poverty levels, however, are very low. China should give more …

attend high school in rural China. Change in the cost of migration is identified using exogenous variation across counties in …

households in China. The authors find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption …

This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A …

implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made …

This paper first reviews the history of social insurance policy and coverage in urban China, documenting the evolution … highlighting obstacles to expanding coverage. The paper then uses two waves of the China Urban Labor Survey, conducted in 2005 and …

-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural … and non-cadre households in rural China without controlling for unobserved dimensions of ability that are also correlated … who is a cadre. Given the increasing returns to non-agricultural employment since China's economic reforms began, it is …