This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of … the wage distribution. -- China ; India ; earnings ; returns to education ; quantile regression ; Oaxaca …

This paper investigates the evolution of earnings inequality in urban China from 1989 to 2006. After decomposing the … distribution of long-term earnings. -- Earnings inequality ; covariance structure of earnings ; China …

Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by … international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in … ; China …

restructuring would sustain higher post-restructuring performance. -- Corporate social responsibility ; profit maximisation ; China …

surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize … characteristics. -- China ; Communist Party ; labour market ; economic transition ; wages …

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … ; China …

This paper tests three hypotheses concerning intra-household resource allocation in rural China. First, whether … allocation ; women ; bargaining power ; China …

widerstreitender Interessen und Machtkonflikte. Es ist dünnes Eis, auf dem sich die Großmächte USA, China und Russland bewegen und um …