this question in the context of rural public work program (Yigong-daizhen) in China, and unveils empirical evidence that …

enforcing minimum wage standards during 2004-2012 in China. We manually collect a panel data set of city-level minimum wage … standards from China's government websites. This analysis finds strong evidence of spatial interdependence in minimum wage … standards and enforcement among main cities in China. If other cities decrease minimum wage standards by 1 RMB, the host city …

This paper constructs and analyses a long-run time-series for regional inequality in China from the Communist … degree of openness. – inequality ; China ; regional inequality …