China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced …

China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …

China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …

' educational achievement. Our estimate shows that the unintended gain of rural education almost compensated the loss in urban China …

China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced …

after the 1970s tend to be skill-biased. Taking advantage of an exogenous surge in college-educated labor force in China …

Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market … children from one of China's poorest provinces, we find that both cognitive and noncognitive skills, measured when children are … schooling, there is no strong evidence that skills measured in childhood predict wages in the early years of labor market …

bivariate probit model in order to take into account the joint nature of the decisions between labor and schooling, this paper … different ways, depending on the geographical area of the household, the gender and the ethnic background of the children. We …

We examine gender differences in ambitions and expectations of jobseekers concerning self-employment, an increasingly …') do not explain gender differences. Our findings suggest early interventions may reduce gender differences in labour …