In contrast to the United States and European countries, China has witnessed a widening gender pay gap in the past two decades. Nevertheless, the size of the gender pay gap could still be underestimated as a result of not accounting for the low-wage women who have dropped out of the labor force....

We introduce new provincial level panel data on human capital in China from 1985 to 2010. Our estimation of human capital is based on the Jorgenson–Fraumeni lifetime income approach modified to fit the Chinese data, thereby allowing a more comprehensive measurement of human capital than...

Cu2ZnSnS4 thin films were prepared on soda-lime glass by sulfurization of the Cu/Sn/ZnS precursors. The microstructure, morphology and optical properties of the films were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman scattering (Raman), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and UV-visible...

In contrast to the United States and European countries, China has witnessed a widening gender pay gap in the past two decades. Nevertheless, the size of the gender pay gap could still be underestimated as a result of not accounting for the low-wage women who have dropped out of the labor force....

Using 1987, 1996, and 2004 data, we show that the gender earnings differential in the Chinese urban labor market has increased across the earnings distribution, and the increase was greater at the lower quantiles. We interpret this as evidence of the stronger "sticky floor" effect. We use the...

Die seit 1979 verfolgte Öffnungspolitik der VR China soll eine Modernisierung der Volkswirtschaft ermöglichen mit dem Ziel, die Agrar- und Industrieproduktion bis zum Jahr 2000 zu vervierfachen. Diesem Ziel sollen ein neu geschaffenes Wirtschaftsrecht, eine Dezentralisierung wirtschaftlicher...

This study examines changes in Chinese urban income distribution from 1987 to 1996 and 1996 to 2004 using nationwide household data and investigates the causes of these changes. The Firpo, Fortin, and Lemieux (2007, 2009) method based on unconditional quantile regressions is used to decompose...