This paper uses provincial macro-data from the mid 1980s onwards to investigate the determinants of land-use choice in rural China, by paying particularattention to the decision to plant trees as competing with agriculture. The evidence supports the importance of economic motivations in the...

This article illustrates the impact of changes related to market reforms and environmental policies on the economic structure in rural China by providing a comparative analysis of several villages in a poor township in Beijing municipality. Two main concomitant phenomena are affecting...

Economic reforms in rural China have brought opportunities to diversify both within-farm activities and off-farm activities. Participation in these activities plays an important role in increasing rural households' income. This paper analyzes the factors that drive rural households and...

Economic reforms in rural China have brought opportunities to diversify both within-farm activities and off-farm activities. Participation in these activities plays an important role in increasing rural households' income. This paper analyzes the factors that drive rural households and...

Cet article examine les motivations qui poussèrent des intellectuels et réformateurs chinois à l'origine du Mouvement Travail-Etudes (MTE) à apporter une assistance aux ouvriers chinois recrutés par les Français et les Britanniques pendant la Première Guerre Mondiale. S'appuyant sur...

Cet article analyse conjointement la stratification du marché du travail urbain par type d'entreprise et la discrimination à l'égard des femmes en Chine urbaine pour l'année 1995, à l'aide d'une extension des méthodes de décomposition de type Oaxaca-Blinder. Nous montrons que les deux...

This paper analyzes the impact of market liberalization on gender earnings differentials and discrimination against women in urban China at the beginning of the 1990s. The observed stability in the overall gender earnings gap between 1988 and 1995 is shown to result from a complex set of...

The massive downsizing of the state-owned sector and the concomitant impressive growth of the private sector at the end of the 1990s have altered the nature of the Chinese labor market. The introduction of market mechanisms has contributed to increasing labor turnover and competitiveness in...