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A Spatial Analysis of Wages and Incomes in Urban China: Divergent Means, Convergent Inequality 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 233
A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China, and the Lewis Model 0 7 10 98 1 15 27 332
Adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations in Ethiopia: the role of Education 0 0 5 245 5 6 25 1,640
Are searching and non-searching unemployment distinct states when unemployment is high? The case of South Africa 0 1 1 48 1 6 7 158
Aspirations, Adaptation and Subjective Well-Being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 0 0 2 226 0 4 10 605
Can the Augmented Solow Model Explain China's Economic Growth? A Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis 0 1 4 1,516 5 11 22 4,187
China as a Developmental State 1 2 3 265 3 6 8 618
China's macroeconomic imbalances: causes and consequences 0 0 0 103 3 9 12 402
China, South Africa and the Lewis Model 0 0 1 161 1 3 5 476
China, South Africa, and the Lewis Model 0 0 0 88 1 2 5 351
China’s Increasing Inequality of Wealth: Piketty with Chinese Characteristics? 0 1 1 30 2 5 7 69
China’s Expansion of Higher Education: the Labour Market Consequences of a Supply Shock 1 1 3 214 1 3 8 328
China’s Inequality is Important – but which Inequality? 0 0 0 69 1 1 2 118
Chinese Peasant Choices: Farming, Rural Industry or Migration 0 0 0 0 2 5 6 746
Chinese Rural Migrants in Urban Enterprises: Three Perspectives 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 779
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 119 1 2 2 573
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 9 2 4 4 130
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 20 2 4 4 136
Cumulative Causation and Inequality Among Villages in China 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 320
Divergent Means and Convergent Inequality of Incomes among the Provinces and Cities of Urban China 0 0 0 15 1 3 4 113
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 11 0 3 4 125
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 15 1 3 3 117
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 19 1 10 12 153
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 29 6 7 14 160
Economic Growth, Economic Reform anf Rising Inequality in China 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 420
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China 0 0 1 101 1 2 4 251
Education externalities in rural Ethiopia: evidence from average and stochastic frontier production functions 0 1 1 51 4 7 8 241
Educational Inequality in China: The Intergenerational Dimension 0 1 1 259 1 5 8 644
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 1 327 1 1 5 925
How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa? 0 1 1 15 1 4 4 55
Income Inequality and Happiness: Which Inequalities Matter n China? 0 0 1 72 2 6 9 84
Income Inequality in Rural China: Communities, Households and Resources Mobility 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 92
Income inequality and happiness: perceived or actual, widely or narrowly defined, fair or unfair, self- or community-centred inequality? 0 0 1 75 2 4 5 134
Income, Aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a Poor Society 0 2 3 191 4 11 21 738
Increasing Wage Inequality in China: Efficiency Versus Equity? 0 0 0 1 0 3 3 428
Inequality in China: an overview 0 0 1 214 2 3 10 417
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 1 149 2 3 8 469
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 28 4 6 9 264
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 23 2 4 5 159
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 78 2 4 7 521
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 92 3 4 5 279
Is Happiness Infectious? 0 0 0 234 2 4 7 652
LEWIS THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS: PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYMENT, RENT-SEEKING AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 0 2 6 7 532
Labour market policies and outcomes in Zimbabwe 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 61
Lewis through a looking glass: public sector employment, rent-seeking, and economic growth 0 0 0 74 4 6 8 282
Memory and Anticipation: New Empirical Support for an Old Theory of the Utility Function 0 0 0 54 2 3 3 134
Minorities in Rural China: Poorer but Inherently Happier? 0 0 0 106 1 1 9 182
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 77 1 7 8 210
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 18 0 1 2 128
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 53 2 2 3 159
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 11 0 1 1 108
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 19 1 7 9 163
Price Scissors and Intersectoral Resource Transfers: Who Paid Industrialization in China? 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 100
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 472 9 14 26 2,038
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 37 2 4 9 203
Subjective Well-being Poverty versus Income Poverty and Capabilities Poverty? 0 0 1 29 0 3 7 132
Subjective Well-being and Social Evaluation in a Poor Country 0 0 0 98 2 3 4 192
Subjective Well-being and its Determinants in Rural China 0 0 0 573 2 10 15 1,465
Subjective well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 8 0 1 8 54
THE DETERMINANTS OF URBAN INCOME INEQUALITY IN CHINA 0 0 0 0 2 3 11 713
THE SPATIAL CONTRIBUTION TO INCOME INEQUALITY IN RURAL CHINA 0 0 0 3 2 6 7 669
The Curious Case of Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China 0 0 0 27 3 3 4 113
The Determinants of Educational Attainment in China 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 714
The Economic Causes and Consequences of Social Instability in China 0 0 0 286 1 3 8 7,058
The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition 0 0 0 132 2 5 6 483
The Evolution of the Migrant Labor Market in China, 2002-2007 0 0 0 181 3 3 4 162
The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in China, 2002-2013 1 1 7 169 8 14 26 709
The Length of Life and the Standard of Living: Economic Influences on Premature Death in China 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 124
The Puzzle of Migrant Labour Shortage and Rural Labour Surplus in China 0 0 1 793 0 2 4 1,621
The Quality of Society and Happiness: Fairness, Trust, and Community in China 0 0 0 14 2 5 15 38
The Role of Social Capital in the Labour Market in China 0 1 1 330 3 6 9 983
The coming economic, social, and political apocalypse? 0 0 0 7 1 4 10 36
The direct and indirect economic consequences of climate damage in poor countries 0 0 3 18 2 6 10 24
The economics of Communist Party membership - The Curious case of rising numbers and wage premium during China’s transition 0 0 0 59 1 3 6 389
The puzzle of falling happiness despite rising income in rural China: ten hypotheses 0 0 2 54 1 3 8 124
The receding housing ladder: house price inflation, parental support, and the changing intergenerational distribution of housing in China 0 0 0 23 6 12 14 53
Unemployment and wages in South Africa: A spatial approach 0 0 0 37 1 2 5 141
Unemployment in South Africa, 1995-2003: Causes, Problems and Policies 0 0 0 31 1 5 16 121
Unemployment in South Africa: The nature of the beast 0 0 0 46 1 5 10 276
Unemployment in South Africa: the nature of the beast 0 0 2 801 2 4 11 4,665
Urban Insiders versus Rural Outsiders: Complementarity or Competition in China`s Urban Labour Market? 0 0 0 140 3 5 7 593
Well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 1 1 586 3 11 15 2,149
Well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 37 0 2 4 160
Why does China invest so much? 1 1 1 337 4 7 8 827
Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change 0 0 0 149 5 7 8 857
Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change 1 1 1 270 4 12 23 1,075
Total Working Papers 5 23 62 11,373 171 409 703 50,776


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A Simulation Alternative to the Comparative R2 Approach to Decomposing Inequality 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 77
A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China and the Lewis Model 0 0 3 11 0 3 9 46
Addendum: Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 157
An Analysis of Racial Wage Discrimination in South Africa 0 0 0 0 0 2 10 737
Black Wages and Choice of Techniques in South Africa 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 69
Can the augmented Solow model explain China's remarkable economic growth? A cross-country panel data analysis 1 5 19 506 5 26 55 1,372
Caste discrimination in the Indian urban labour market 1 5 15 631 3 12 40 1,478
Causes et conséquences des réductions d'effectifs dans les entreprises publiques en Chine 0 0 0 4 2 3 7 122
China as a Developmental State 0 2 6 57 1 7 25 217
China's growing but slowing inequality of household wealth, 2013–2018: A challenge to ‘common prosperity’? 0 3 6 15 1 6 17 45
China’s Macroeconomic Imbalances: Causes and Consequences 0 0 0 57 0 2 4 311
China’s evolving inequality 0 0 1 18 2 4 7 55
China’s expansion of higher education: The labour market consequences of a supply shock 0 0 4 38 3 16 44 210
Chinese Peasant Choices: Migration, Rural Industry or Farming 0 0 0 85 2 3 3 263
Chinese rural migrants in urban enterprises: Three perspectives 0 0 2 76 2 4 7 308
Community, comparisons and subjective well-being in a divided society 0 0 1 166 0 4 7 496
Contrasting paradigms: segmentation and competitiveness in the formation of the chinese labour market 0 0 2 163 1 10 21 638
Cumulative causation and inequality among villages in China 0 0 0 30 3 5 7 158
Devaluation and Income Distribution in Less-Developed Economies 0 0 0 60 1 2 2 185
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 3 1 7 12 56
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? 0 0 2 82 2 6 11 332
Earnings, Schooling, Ability, and Cognitive Skills 0 0 0 438 2 4 13 986
Economic Causes and Cures of Social Instability in China 0 0 0 7 2 2 3 71
Economic Growth in China: Productivity and Policy 0 0 0 20 0 0 2 75
Economic Policies for a Harmonious Society: A Symposium: Editorial Introduction 0 0 0 10 1 1 1 31
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China: Closing the Trap 0 0 2 56 3 5 9 336
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China: Setting the Trap 0 0 1 67 4 8 13 218
Educational Attainment and the Rural--Urban Divide in China 0 0 0 1 2 4 15 1,461
Educational Expansion and the Kuznets Effect 0 1 2 400 0 6 14 1,050
Educational Policy and Labour Productivity: An Output Accounting Exercise 0 0 0 68 0 2 3 330
Educational expansion, government policy and wage compression 0 0 1 34 3 3 5 101
Employment Constraints and Sub-optimality in Chinese Enterprises 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 256
Explaining Income Distribution in Less Developed Countries: A Framework and an Agenda 0 0 0 1 0 3 6 224
Externality Effects of Education: Dynamics of the Adoption and Diffusion of an Innovation in Rural Ethiopia 0 1 3 39 5 7 14 596
Fair and unfair inequality in China 0 0 0 5 1 1 4 23
Fiscal decentralization: Incentives, redistribution and reform in China 0 0 0 67 3 5 6 259
From Migrants to Proletarians: Employment Experience, Mobility and Wages in Tanzania 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 132
Great Expectations? The Subjective Well-being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 0 1 4 240 4 10 29 877
Has Capitalism Underdeveloped the Labour Reserves of South Africa? 0 0 0 0 2 4 8 139
How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa? 0 2 2 55 3 6 8 262
How High is Urban Unemployment in China? 0 1 1 425 1 7 9 1,865
Income inequality and happiness: Which inequalities matter in China? 0 0 2 19 1 5 14 89
Income, aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a poor society 0 2 3 66 1 5 9 260
Increasing urban wage inequality in China 1 1 2 253 7 8 14 836
Inequality in China: An Overview 0 0 1 26 0 3 6 109
Investment and financing constraints in China: Does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 1 99 4 9 24 428
Is Happiness Infectious? 0 0 1 6 0 3 7 58
Is the Rate of Return on Primary Schooling Really 26 Per Cent? 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 271
Job Competition, Occupational Productions, and Filtering Down 0 0 0 35 1 3 4 206
Job mobility of residents and migrants in urban China 0 0 1 111 2 4 8 339
Labor retrenchment in China: Determinants and consequences 0 0 1 244 2 4 7 859
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 2 2 172
Memory and Anticipation of Income: New Empirical Support for an Old Theory of the Utility Function 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 16
Negative Investment in China: Financing Constraints and Restructuring versus Growth 0 0 0 5 2 4 7 53
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 2 94 2 3 7 378
Primary Education as an Input into Post-primary Education: A Neglected Benefit 0 0 0 4 0 2 4 850
Production Externalities of Education: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 314
Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth 0 0 0 237 0 1 5 738
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 1 123 3 6 11 581
Reform, Growth, and Inequality in China* 0 1 2 90 1 4 6 202
Rural-Urban Income Comparisons and Migration in Ghana 0 0 0 3 0 2 3 630
Segmentation or competition in China's urban labour market? 0 0 1 30 0 5 8 96
Seniority Payments, Quit Rates, and Internal Labour Markets in Britain and Japan 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 121
Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China 0 0 1 29 7 7 11 111
Subjective well-being and its determinants in rural China 1 2 4 232 2 7 15 767
Subjective well-being poverty vs. Income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 146 3 8 10 470
The Determinants of Urban Income Inequality in China 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 1,563
The Determination of the General Wage Level: Comment 0 0 0 12 0 3 3 82
The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China's Transition 0 0 0 47 1 4 6 255
The Nature of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 115 0 1 2 554
The Puzzle of Falling Happiness despite Rising Income in Rural China: Eleven Hypotheses 0 0 1 22 0 0 3 57
The Returns to Education: Increasing with Experience or Decreasing with Expansion? 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 259
The Role of Occupation in the Determination of Wages 0 0 0 53 2 4 6 136
The Role of the Firm in Wage Determination: An African Case Study 0 0 0 16 1 1 1 65
The Rural-Urban Divide in China: Income but Not Happiness? 0 1 6 154 2 7 22 445
The Societal Cost of China's Rapid Economic Growth 0 0 1 6 2 3 9 52
The Spatial Contribution to Income Inequality in Rural China 0 0 0 0 3 5 5 697
The economic causes and consequences of social instability in China 0 0 0 55 2 4 8 408
The measurement of unemployment when unemployment is high 0 1 1 226 0 3 11 709
The puzzle of migrant labour shortage and rural labour surplus in China 0 0 2 107 5 10 22 422
The rate of return on educational expansion 0 0 0 34 0 3 5 81
The role of education in facilitating risk-taking and innovation in agriculture 0 0 2 230 2 2 7 1,132
The role of social capital in the labour market in China1 1 1 2 88 1 2 7 293
Three Poverties in Urban China 0 0 0 52 3 4 4 178
Towards a Labour Market in China 0 0 0 1 3 5 12 1,092
Unemployment duration and earnings of re-employed workers in urban China 0 0 0 88 1 2 3 254
Unemployment in South Africa, 1995--2003: Causes, Problems and Policies 0 0 6 266 4 11 36 1,194
Unemployment in South Africa: The Nature of the Beast 2 5 13 508 7 15 64 2,419
Wage Determination and Labour Market Inflexibility: Introduction 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 235
Wage Structure and Labour Turnover 0 0 0 16 0 0 2 78
Wages and Employment in Developed and Underdeveloped Economies 0 0 0 41 1 3 4 244
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 0 0 6 235 3 5 13 556
Why Do Girls in Rural China Have Lower School Enrollment? 1 1 2 222 2 3 9 650
Why Does China Invest So Much? 0 0 0 107 2 6 10 355
Why has China Grown So Fast? The Role of Physical and Human Capital Formation 0 0 0 0 38 44 47 209
Why has China’s Inequality of Household Wealth Risen Rapidly in the Twenty‐First Century? 1 4 7 25 13 16 32 81
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 2 3 84
Total Journal Articles 10 41 149 8,576 212 482 1,025 40,951


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China's Remarkable Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 2 4 9 383
Economic Transformation and Income Distribution in China over Three Decades 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 6
Economic Transformation and Income Distribution in China over Three Decades 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 5
The Rural-Urban Divide: Economic Disparities and Interactions in China 0 0 0 0 1 7 21 11,621
Towards a Labour Market in China 0 0 0 0 3 5 9 1,233
Total Books 0 0 0 0 8 19 45 13,248


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China’s Labour Market: Evolution and Impediments 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 6
The Determinants of Educational Attainment in China 0 0 1 2 2 3 5 15
The Rural–Urban Divide and the Evaluation of Political Economy in China 0 0 1 19 3 5 11 70
Why Urban Wages Differ in China 0 0 0 0 1 4 4 7
Workers in China’s Rural Industries 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 10
Total Chapters 0 0 2 21 7 17 28 108


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