We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics …. Although real wages increased seven-fold during the period, growth was uneven across ownership types, industries and regions …. Since the late 1990s, the wages of state-owned enterprises have increased rapidly and wage disparities between skill …

in different locations in the Greater China area are determined by the time value, or the shadow wage, of an individual …

China's exports reduce wages in importing countries, but few studies have looked at competition in third party markets … from China. Using data on U.S. imports in conjunction with quarterly Mexican labor force surveys, we show that U.S. imports … from China are associated with a reduction of employment in Mexico's textile and apparel sectors. These effects are the …

on whether it actually matters for wages, and if it does, what are the underlying mechanisms. We empirically examine … these issues specifically for rural migrants in urban China, a country where one of the largest domestic migration in human … successfully find a job in a competitive market) to potential employers, resulting in lower wages; and 2) there exists a trade …

on whether it actually matters for wages, and if it does, what are the underlying mechanisms. We empirically examine … these issues specifically for rural migrants in urban China, a country where one of the largest domestic migration in human … successfully find a job in a competitive market) to potential employers, resulting in lower wages; and 2) there exists a trade …

China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply … local labor markets. This chapter uses data from the 2008 and 2009 migrant surveys of the Rural-Urban Migration in China … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets …

We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics …. Although real wages increased seven-fold during the period, growth was uneven across ownership types, industries and regions …. Since the late 1990s, the wages of state-owned enterprises have increased rapidly and wage disparities between skill …

The paper starts with discussing institutional framework for public sector wage setting in Russia. Given that … individual choice of the sector is endogenous to wages, the authors recommend alternative econometric techniques for the public … is significant cross-group variation in the wage gap. The paper concludes that to eliminate the negative gap wages in the …