reforms and technological changes that increased the relative demand for skill. -- Education ; earnings ; inequality ; China …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 …

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

Because of China's socialist legacy, until recently little attention has been paid to the rise of informal employment … in China by analyzing data from recent household surveys collected in six large Chinese cities in 2010. The surveys were … authors provide a number of insights into the extent and nature of informal employment and labor market development in China …

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

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