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A Spatial Analysis of Wages and Incomes in Urban China: Divergent Means, Convergent Inequality 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 231
A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China, and the Lewis Model 0 2 2 90 1 4 9 311
Adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations in Ethiopia: the role of Education 0 0 3 242 3 7 18 1,625
Are searching and non-searching unemployment distinct states when unemployment is high? The case of South Africa 0 0 0 47 0 0 0 151
Aspirations, Adaptation and Subjective Well-Being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 1 1 1 225 1 1 2 596
Can the Augmented Solow Model Explain China's Economic Growth? A Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis 0 1 8 1,513 1 5 22 4,170
China as a Developmental State 0 0 1 262 0 0 5 610
China's macroeconomic imbalances: causes and consequences 0 0 0 103 0 1 3 392
China, South Africa and the Lewis Model 0 1 3 161 0 2 5 473
China, South Africa, and the Lewis Model 0 0 0 88 0 3 4 349
China’s Increasing Inequality of Wealth: Piketty with Chinese Characteristics? 0 0 0 29 0 0 3 62
China’s Expansion of Higher Education: the Labour Market Consequences of a Supply Shock 0 0 0 211 0 0 10 320
China’s Inequality is Important – but which Inequality? 0 0 0 69 0 0 3 116
Chinese Peasant Choices: Farming, Rural Industry or Migration 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 741
Chinese Rural Migrants in Urban Enterprises: Three Perspectives 0 0 0 2 0 0 9 777
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 119 0 0 0 571
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 20 0 0 9 132
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 9 0 0 1 126
Cumulative Causation and Inequality Among Villages in China 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 317
Divergent Means and Convergent Inequality of Incomes among the Provinces and Cities of Urban China 0 0 0 15 0 0 2 109
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 15 0 0 0 114
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 11 0 0 1 121
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 29 0 0 2 146
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 19 0 0 1 142
Economic Growth, Economic Reform anf Rising Inequality in China 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 418
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China 0 0 1 101 0 0 1 248
Education externalities in rural Ethiopia: evidence from average and stochastic frontier production functions 0 0 1 50 0 0 2 233
Educational Inequality in China: The Intergenerational Dimension 0 0 1 258 0 0 6 636
Fiscal Decentralisation, Redistribution and Reform in China 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 114
Great Expectations? The Subjective Well-Being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 0 0 0 326 0 0 1 920
How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa? 0 0 1 14 0 0 1 51
Income Inequality and Happiness: Which Inequalities Matter n China? 0 1 1 72 1 3 5 78
Income Inequality in Rural China: Communities, Households and Resources Mobility 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 91
Income inequality and happiness: perceived or actual, widely or narrowly defined, fair or unfair, self- or community-centred inequality? 0 0 1 74 0 0 4 129
Income, Aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a Poor Society 0 1 1 189 0 4 6 721
Increasing Wage Inequality in China: Efficiency Versus Equity? 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 425
Inequality in China: an overview 0 0 2 214 0 2 4 410
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 1 92 0 1 4 275
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 1 28 0 0 1 255
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 23 0 0 1 154
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 1 1 2 149 1 1 3 463
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 78 0 0 3 515
Is Happiness Infectious? 0 0 1 234 1 2 5 647
LEWIS THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS: PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYMENT, RENT-SEEKING AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 526
Labour market policies and outcomes in Zimbabwe 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 59
Lewis through a looking glass: public sector employment, rent-seeking, and economic growth 0 0 0 74 0 1 3 275
Memory and Anticipation: New Empirical Support for an Old Theory of the Utility Function 0 0 0 54 0 0 0 131
Minorities in Rural China: Poorer but Inherently Happier? 0 0 1 106 0 7 9 180
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 77 0 0 1 202
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 53 0 0 0 156
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 19 0 0 2 154
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 107
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 18 0 0 1 127
Price Scissors and Intersectoral Resource Transfers: Who Paid Industrialization in China? 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 98
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 1 472 1 5 13 2,018
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 1 37 0 1 3 196
Subjective Well-being Poverty versus Income Poverty and Capabilities Poverty? 0 0 1 28 0 0 3 125
Subjective Well-being and Social Evaluation in a Poor Country 0 0 0 98 1 1 2 189
Subjective Well-being and its Determinants in Rural China 0 0 0 573 1 2 8 1,454
Subjective well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 8 0 0 1 46
THE DETERMINANTS OF URBAN INCOME INEQUALITY IN CHINA 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 703
THE SPATIAL CONTRIBUTION TO INCOME INEQUALITY IN RURAL CHINA 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 663
The Curious Case of Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China 0 0 0 27 0 0 1 109
The Determinants of Educational Attainment in China 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 711
The Economic Causes and Consequences of Social Instability in China 0 0 0 286 1 5 8 7,055
The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition 0 0 0 132 0 0 1 478
The Evolution of the Migrant Labor Market in China, 2002-2007 0 0 0 181 0 0 0 158
The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in China, 2002-2013 2 4 7 166 2 6 22 690
The Length of Life and the Standard of Living: Economic Influences on Premature Death in China 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 121
The Puzzle of Migrant Labour Shortage and Rural Labour Surplus in China 0 0 2 792 0 1 7 1,618
The Quality of Society and Happiness: Fairness, Trust, and Community in China 0 0 2 14 0 3 11 27
The Role of Social Capital in the Labour Market in China 0 0 0 329 0 0 7 976
The coming economic, social, and political apocalypse? 0 0 1 7 0 1 5 29
The direct and indirect economic consequences of climate damage in poor countries 0 3 3 18 0 3 5 17
The economics of Communist Party membership - The Curious case of rising numbers and wage premium during China’s transition 0 0 0 59 0 0 2 384
The puzzle of falling happiness despite rising income in rural China: ten hypotheses 0 0 1 52 1 2 7 119
The receding housing ladder: house price inflation, parental support, and the changing intergenerational distribution of housing in China 0 0 0 23 0 1 4 41
Unemployment and wages in South Africa: A spatial approach 0 0 0 37 1 1 2 137
Unemployment in South Africa, 1995-2003: Causes, Problems and Policies 0 0 0 31 3 7 16 112
Unemployment in South Africa: The nature of the beast 0 0 0 46 0 0 4 266
Unemployment in South Africa: the nature of the beast 0 1 3 800 0 2 6 4,656
Urban Insiders versus Rural Outsiders: Complementarity or Competition in China`s Urban Labour Market? 0 0 0 140 0 1 3 587
Well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 585 0 0 10 2,134
Well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 37 0 0 7 158
Why does China invest so much? 0 0 0 336 0 1 3 820
Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change 0 0 0 149 0 0 2 850
Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change 0 0 1 269 0 3 10 1,055
Total Working Papers 4 16 56 11,331 21 95 367 50,202


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A Simulation Alternative to the Comparative R2 Approach to Decomposing Inequality 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 76
A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China and the Lewis Model 1 1 1 9 2 2 5 39
Addendum: Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 156
An Analysis of Racial Wage Discrimination in South Africa 0 0 0 0 1 3 10 731
Black Wages and Choice of Techniques in South Africa 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 67
Can the augmented Solow model explain China's remarkable economic growth? A cross-country panel data analysis 2 6 23 493 2 11 45 1,329
Caste discrimination in the Indian urban labour market 1 3 10 620 1 8 32 1,450
Causes et conséquences des réductions d'effectifs dans les entreprises publiques en Chine 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 116
China as a Developmental State 0 2 4 54 1 7 17 202
China's growing but slowing inequality of household wealth, 2013–2018: A challenge to ‘common prosperity’? 0 1 1 10 2 6 12 35
China’s Macroeconomic Imbalances: Causes and Consequences 0 0 1 57 0 0 2 308
China’s evolving inequality 0 1 1 18 0 3 4 51
China’s expansion of higher education: The labour market consequences of a supply shock 0 0 1 34 4 5 24 172
Chinese Peasant Choices: Migration, Rural Industry or Farming 0 0 0 85 0 0 0 260
Chinese rural migrants in urban enterprises: Three perspectives 1 1 5 76 1 1 11 303
Community, comparisons and subjective well-being in a divided society 0 0 2 165 0 0 4 490
Contrasting paradigms: segmentation and competitiveness in the formation of the chinese labour market 0 1 1 162 0 4 10 623
Cumulative causation and inequality among villages in China 0 0 0 30 0 0 0 151
Devaluation and Income Distribution in Less-Developed Economies 0 0 2 60 0 0 2 183
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 3 1 2 4 46
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? 0 1 3 81 0 2 11 323
Earnings, Schooling, Ability, and Cognitive Skills 0 0 3 438 1 1 4 974
Economic Causes and Cures of Social Instability in China 0 0 0 7 0 1 2 69
Economic Growth in China: Productivity and Policy 0 0 0 20 1 2 3 75
Economic Policies for a Harmonious Society: A Symposium: Editorial Introduction 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 30
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China: Closing the Trap 0 0 0 54 1 1 3 328
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China: Setting the Trap 0 0 0 66 0 1 3 207
Educational Attainment and the Rural--Urban Divide in China 0 0 0 1 5 5 14 1,452
Educational Expansion and the Kuznets Effect 0 1 8 399 1 3 20 1,040
Educational Policy and Labour Productivity: An Output Accounting Exercise 0 0 0 68 0 0 0 327
Educational expansion, government policy and wage compression 0 0 0 33 0 0 0 96
Employment Constraints and Sub-optimality in Chinese Enterprises 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 254
Explaining Income Distribution in Less Developed Countries: A Framework and an Agenda 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 219
Externality Effects of Education: Dynamics of the Adoption and Diffusion of an Innovation in Rural Ethiopia 0 1 1 37 0 3 4 585
Fair and unfair inequality in China 0 0 3 5 0 0 4 19
Fiscal decentralization: Incentives, redistribution and reform in China 0 0 0 67 0 1 2 254
From Migrants to Proletarians: Employment Experience, Mobility and Wages in Tanzania 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 131
Great Expectations? The Subjective Well-being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 2 2 6 238 6 8 24 859
Has Capitalism Underdeveloped the Labour Reserves of South Africa? 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 132
How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa? 0 0 0 53 0 0 0 254
How High is Urban Unemployment in China? 0 0 2 424 1 1 4 1,857
Income inequality and happiness: Which inequalities matter in China? 1 2 5 19 1 4 14 81
Income, aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a poor society 0 0 2 64 0 1 4 253
Increasing urban wage inequality in China 0 0 0 251 0 0 1 823
Inequality in China: An Overview 0 0 2 26 0 1 5 105
Investment and financing constraints in China: Does working capital management make a difference? 0 1 1 99 3 4 19 409
Is Happiness Infectious? 0 0 0 5 0 0 3 51
Is the Rate of Return on Primary Schooling Really 26 Per Cent? 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 269
Job Competition, Occupational Productions, and Filtering Down 0 0 2 35 0 0 24 202
Job mobility of residents and migrants in urban China 0 0 1 111 0 1 5 334
Labor retrenchment in China: Determinants and consequences 1 1 5 244 1 2 9 855
Labour Allocation and Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 147
Labour Market Issues in Zimbabwe: Lessons for South Africa 0 0 0 41 0 0 0 170
Memory and Anticipation of Income: New Empirical Support for an Old Theory of the Utility Function 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 14
Negative Investment in China: Financing Constraints and Restructuring versus Growth 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 46
On the Determination of the General Wage Level: A Rejoinder 0 0 0 10 0 0 1 65
Price Scissors and Intersectoral Resource Transfers: Who Paid for Industrialization in China? 1 1 1 93 1 2 3 373
Primary Education as an Input into Post-primary Education: A Neglected Benefit 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 847
Production Externalities of Education: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 311
Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth 0 0 1 237 0 1 8 737
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 1 1 1 123 1 3 4 573
Reform, Growth, and Inequality in China* 1 1 1 89 1 1 2 197
Rural-Urban Income Comparisons and Migration in Ghana 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 628
Segmentation or competition in China's urban labour market? 1 1 1 30 2 2 2 90
Seniority Payments, Quit Rates, and Internal Labour Markets in Britain and Japan 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 119
Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China 0 0 1 29 0 1 3 102
Subjective well-being and its determinants in rural China 0 0 5 229 0 0 13 753
Subjective well-being poverty vs. Income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 1 146 0 0 10 460
The Determinants of Urban Income Inequality in China 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1,560
The Determination of the General Wage Level: Comment 0 0 1 12 0 0 1 79
The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China's Transition 0 0 0 47 0 0 1 250
The Nature of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 1 115 0 0 1 552
The Puzzle of Falling Happiness despite Rising Income in Rural China: Eleven Hypotheses 0 0 1 21 1 1 5 55
The Returns to Education: Increasing with Experience or Decreasing with Expansion? 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 254
The Role of Occupation in the Determination of Wages 0 0 0 53 0 0 3 130
The Role of the Firm in Wage Determination: An African Case Study 0 0 0 16 0 0 0 64
The Rural-Urban Divide in China: Income but Not Happiness? 0 2 9 151 2 4 24 428
The Societal Cost of China's Rapid Economic Growth 0 0 0 5 0 2 2 45
The Spatial Contribution to Income Inequality in Rural China 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 692
The economic causes and consequences of social instability in China 0 0 3 55 0 1 13 401
The measurement of unemployment when unemployment is high 0 0 4 225 2 3 8 701
The puzzle of migrant labour shortage and rural labour surplus in China 0 0 2 105 0 4 10 405
The rate of return on educational expansion 0 0 0 34 0 0 0 76
The role of education in facilitating risk-taking and innovation in agriculture 0 1 3 229 1 2 11 1,127
The role of social capital in the labour market in China1 0 0 0 86 1 2 4 288
Three Poverties in Urban China 0 0 1 52 0 0 2 174
Towards a Labour Market in China 0 0 0 1 2 4 6 1,084
Unemployment duration and earnings of re-employed workers in urban China 0 0 0 88 0 0 2 251
Unemployment in South Africa, 1995--2003: Causes, Problems and Policies 1 3 10 263 6 12 39 1,172
Unemployment in South Africa: The Nature of the Beast 2 3 12 498 9 17 70 2,374
Wage Determination and Labour Market Inflexibility: Introduction 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 233
Wage Structure and Labour Turnover 0 0 0 16 0 0 1 77
Wages and Employment in Developed and Underdeveloped Economies 0 0 0 41 0 1 1 241
Wages in Africa: What Should a Foreign Firm Do? 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 322
Wages, firm profitability and labor market segmentation in urban China 2 3 7 232 2 3 13 546
Why Do Girls in Rural China Have Lower School Enrollment? 0 1 1 221 1 3 6 645
Why Does China Invest So Much? 0 0 0 107 0 3 5 348
Why has China Grown So Fast? The Role of Physical and Human Capital Formation 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 162
Why has China’s Inequality of Household Wealth Risen Rapidly in the Twenty‐First Century? 0 0 4 18 3 7 13 57
Work, income and inequality. Payment systems in the third world: Frances Stewart, ed., (Macmillan, London, 1983) pp. x + 333, [UK pound]20.00 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 81
Total Journal Articles 18 42 168 8,478 74 182 688 40,161


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China's Remarkable Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 0 2 9 376
Economic Transformation and Income Distribution in China over Three Decades 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Economic Transformation and Income Distribution in China over Three Decades 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3
The Rural-Urban Divide: Economic Disparities and Interactions in China 0 0 0 0 1 2 19 11,604
Towards a Labour Market in China 0 0 0 0 1 3 6 1,228
Total Books 0 0 0 0 2 8 35 13,214


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China’s Labour Market: Evolution and Impediments 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4
The Determinants of Educational Attainment in China 0 0 1 2 0 1 2 12
The Rural–Urban Divide and the Evaluation of Political Economy in China 0 0 1 18 0 2 5 61
Why Urban Wages Differ in China 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Workers in China’s Rural Industries 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5
Total Chapters 0 0 2 20 0 3 10 85


Statistics updated 2025-05-12