Provincial data are used to examine the economic performance of China's human capital, adjusted by mortality and … interprovincial migration figures. The perpetual-inventory approach is used to compile China's human capital, which is further …

profitability of foreign direct investments made by overseas Chinese in China. Our paper takes advantage of a large dataset-over 50 …,000 firms over a period of eight years-that is comprised of two types of foreign firms with investments in China-those owned by … China do not outperform non-ethnically Chinese firms by a set of conventional profitability measures. We also find that the …

of the world to pursue economic opportunities and alternative means of livelihood. Emigration from China ebbed after … World War II, but has surged again as China implemented its open-door policy in December 1978. Since then, massive waves of …