In China, informal precarious work has exploded and now represents a majority of urban employment. This article …

The Chinese leadership in November 2013 determined to embark upon a new wave of comprehensive reforms in China. This is … clearly reflected by the key decision of the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of Communist Party of China to assign … is crucial because it sends clear signals to both producers and consumers of energy. While the overall trend of China …

Sectoral Market Mechanism (SMM) in China. Based on a detailed overview of domestic policy instruments under SMM, this paper … econometric analysis. The data were collected from 113 respondents in all 11 prefecture-level cities of Shanxi province, China …

We apply insights from the heterogeneous firms’ literature to an empirical investigation of wage inequality in China …

We estimate foreign ownership wage premiums for every 3-digit manufacturing industry in China and discover a wide range … residual wage premiums attached to foreign ownership in China. …

china between the 17th and 20th centuries. We find, in line with much of the literature, that GDP per capita declined …

With rising labor costs in China, some scholars assert that China's labor-intensive industries will succumb to … latecomer economies, and China's era as the "workshop of the world" will end. There is, however, little agreement regarding … whether labor-intensive industries, now concentrated in coastal China, are relocating to other regions. How does agglomeration …

mainland China with the global market. …

.5% for female urban workers to 8-9.5% for female migrant workers. Thus, private returns to education in urban China in 2009 …This paper uses a new dataset, the 2009 Rural Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) to estimate returns to schooling in … China using an instrumental variable (IV) methodology. After identifying a set of instruments, we conduct comprehensive …