Many recent studies claim that China has reached a Lewisian ‘turning point’ in economic development, signalled by … has been caused by unskilled labour shortages. China still has abundant under-employed workers with very low income in the … rural sector. We argue that China's unique institutional and policy-induced barriers to migration have both prevented many …

Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality …

Despite the intensive efforts made by economists to examine regional income inequality in China, limited attention has … in urban China over the period 1986 to 2001. Spatial Price Index (SPI) is normally calculated using the Basket Cost … those obtained from the Basket Cost method. Further, regional price variations in urban China increased significantly during …

The employment shock of late 2008 in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) may have been a product of three different … events : (i) the contractionary macroeconomic policies introduced by the government and the central bank in 2007 to slow …

endogeneity problem our results show that rural migrants in urban China have modest positive or zero effects on the average …