labor productivity growth. Design/methodology/approach – This paper first decomposes the regional disparity in China … 2005, although the growth of China's agricultural labor productivity mainly depended on the accumulation of inputs …, which studies the determinants of regional disparities in China's agricultural labor productivity growth, contributes to a …

Purpose – As a major agricultural province in central China, Hubei Province mainly carries out the peasant household …

October 2008 in Hubei Province, China. Both exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis are applied to assess …

factors. Productivity is restrained by the high price of Bt cotton seeds which pushed farmers to keep seeds from their own …

Economic reforms in rural China have brought opportunities to diversify both within-farm activities and off … Northern China. At the household level, we distinguish three types of diversification as opposed to grain production only …

This paper analyzes the changes in public-private sector earnings differentials for local residents in urban China …

Western China. In addition, urban effects also vary across the urban hierarchy as we found that provincial-level cities have a …

Since 2003, the New Rural Cooperative Medical Scheme is gradually implemented in China, in order first, to increase …