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

We provide evidence that promotion incentives influence the effort of public employees by studying China's system of …

influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for …

Although theory predicts that international trade will decrease the relative demand for skilled workers in relatively … workers. We examines this puzzle by quantifying the relative importance of different supply and demand factors in explaining … the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …

We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China …). We use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) pilot data to document health conditions among the … China, particularly so for the aged. In general education tends to be positively correlated with better health outcomes, as …

Using data from the China Urban Labor Survey conducted in five large Chinese cities at year end 2001, we quantify the …

Using data from a recent survey of bank and enterprise managers and government officials in southern China, we present …

returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to …