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A Spatial Analysis of Wages and Incomes in Urban China: Divergent Means, Convergent Inequality 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 231
A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China, and the Lewis Model 0 0 3 91 0 3 13 317
Adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations in Ethiopia: the role of Education 0 1 6 245 0 3 22 1,634
Are searching and non-searching unemployment distinct states when unemployment is high? The case of South Africa 1 1 1 48 5 6 6 157
Aspirations, Adaptation and Subjective Well-Being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 0 1 2 226 0 2 6 601
Can the Augmented Solow Model Explain China's Economic Growth? A Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis 0 0 5 1,515 4 5 22 4,180
China as a Developmental State 1 2 2 264 3 4 7 615
China's macroeconomic imbalances: causes and consequences 0 0 0 103 2 3 5 395
China, South Africa and the Lewis Model 0 0 3 161 1 1 6 474
China, South Africa, and the Lewis Model 0 0 0 88 1 1 5 350
China’s Increasing Inequality of Wealth: Piketty with Chinese Characteristics? 0 0 0 29 1 3 4 65
China’s Expansion of Higher Education: the Labour Market Consequences of a Supply Shock 0 2 2 213 2 5 10 327
China’s Inequality is Important – but which Inequality? 0 0 0 69 0 1 2 117
Chinese Peasant Choices: Farming, Rural Industry or Migration 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 742
Chinese Rural Migrants in Urban Enterprises: Three Perspectives 0 0 0 2 2 2 7 779
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 1 1 1 133
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 9 1 1 2 127
Cumulative Causation and Inequality Among Villages in China 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 318
Divergent Means and Convergent Inequality of Incomes among the Provinces and Cities of Urban China 0 0 0 15 1 2 3 111
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 29 1 7 9 154
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 15 1 1 1 115
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 11 2 2 3 124
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 19 3 3 5 146
Economic Growth, Economic Reform anf Rising Inequality in China 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 419
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China 0 0 1 101 1 1 3 250
Education externalities in rural Ethiopia: evidence from average and stochastic frontier production functions 1 1 1 51 1 2 3 235
Educational Inequality in China: The Intergenerational Dimension 1 1 1 259 3 4 9 642
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 0 0 4 924
How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa? 1 1 1 15 1 1 1 52
Income Inequality and Happiness: Which Inequalities Matter n China? 0 0 1 72 1 1 4 79
Income Inequality in Rural China: Communities, Households and Resources Mobility 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 91
Income inequality and happiness: perceived or actual, widely or narrowly defined, fair or unfair, self- or community-centred inequality? 0 1 2 75 0 1 3 130
Income, Aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a Poor Society 1 1 2 190 1 3 12 728
Increasing Wage Inequality in China: Efficiency Versus Equity? 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 426
Inequality in China: an overview 0 0 1 214 0 3 7 414
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 78 1 1 5 518
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 23 1 1 2 156
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 28 0 2 3 258
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 92 0 0 2 275
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 1 149 0 3 5 466
Is Happiness Infectious? 0 0 1 234 1 2 5 649
LEWIS THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS: PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYMENT, RENT-SEEKING AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 0 4 4 5 530
Labour market policies and outcomes in Zimbabwe 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 59
Lewis through a looking glass: public sector employment, rent-seeking, and economic growth 0 0 0 74 1 2 4 277
Memory and Anticipation: New Empirical Support for an Old Theory of the Utility Function 0 0 0 54 1 1 1 132
Minorities in Rural China: Poorer but Inherently Happier? 0 0 1 106 0 0 9 181
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 77 5 5 6 208
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 53 0 1 1 157
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 18 1 1 2 128
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 19 3 5 6 159
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 0 37 0 1 5 199
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 472 2 4 16 2,026
Subjective Well-being Poverty versus Income Poverty and Capabilities Poverty? 0 0 2 29 2 4 7 131
Subjective Well-being and Social Evaluation in a Poor Country 0 0 0 98 1 1 2 190
Subjective Well-being and its Determinants in Rural China 0 0 0 573 1 2 7 1,456
Subjective well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 8 0 6 8 53
THE DETERMINANTS OF URBAN INCOME INEQUALITY IN CHINA 0 0 0 0 0 5 8 710
THE SPATIAL CONTRIBUTION TO INCOME INEQUALITY IN RURAL CHINA 0 0 0 3 2 2 3 665
The Curious Case of Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China 0 0 0 27 0 1 2 110
The Determinants of Educational Attainment in China 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 712
The Economic Causes and Consequences of Social Instability in China 0 0 0 286 0 0 5 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 1 1 2 479
The Evolution of the Migrant Labor Market in China, 2002-2007 0 0 0 181 0 0 1 159
The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in China, 2002-2013 0 1 7 168 5 7 20 700
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 1 1 793 0 1 3 1,619
The Quality of Society and Happiness: Fairness, Trust, and Community in China 0 0 0 14 1 3 12 34
The Role of Social Capital in the Labour Market in China 0 0 0 329 1 1 5 978
The coming economic, social, and political apocalypse? 0 0 0 7 2 3 8 34
The direct and indirect economic consequences of climate damage in poor countries 0 0 3 18 2 3 7 20
The economics of Communist Party membership - The Curious case of rising numbers and wage premium during China’s transition 0 0 0 59 1 2 5 387
The puzzle of falling happiness despite rising income in rural China: ten hypotheses 0 1 2 54 0 1 6 121
The receding housing ladder: house price inflation, parental support, and the changing intergenerational distribution of housing in China 0 0 0 23 2 2 4 43
Unemployment and wages in South Africa: A spatial approach 0 0 0 37 0 1 4 139
Unemployment in South Africa, 1995-2003: Causes, Problems and Policies 0 0 0 31 1 2 13 117
Unemployment in South Africa: The nature of the beast 0 0 0 46 4 5 9 275
Unemployment in South Africa: the nature of the beast 0 1 3 801 1 3 9 4,662
Urban Insiders versus Rural Outsiders: Complementarity or Competition in China`s Urban Labour Market? 0 0 0 140 0 0 3 588
Well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 585 2 4 10 2,140
Well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 37 1 1 3 159
Why does China invest so much? 0 0 0 336 1 1 3 821
Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change 0 0 0 149 0 0 1 850
Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change 0 0 1 269 3 7 16 1,066
Total Working Papers 6 16 57 11,356 97 178 462 50,464


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A Simulation Alternative to the Comparative R2 Approach to Decomposing Inequality 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 76
A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China and the Lewis Model 0 1 3 11 1 4 7 44
Addendum: Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 157
An Analysis of Racial Wage Discrimination in South Africa 0 0 0 0 2 4 12 737
Black Wages and Choice of Techniques in South Africa 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 67
Can the augmented Solow model explain China's remarkable economic growth? A cross-country panel data analysis 3 4 20 504 7 10 43 1,353
Caste discrimination in the Indian urban labour market 2 7 13 628 4 16 35 1,470
Causes et conséquences des réductions d'effectifs dans les entreprises publiques en Chine 0 0 0 4 0 1 4 119
China as a Developmental State 0 1 4 55 0 3 18 210
China's growing but slowing inequality of household wealth, 2013–2018: A challenge to ‘common prosperity’? 2 2 5 14 2 3 15 41
China’s Macroeconomic Imbalances: Causes and Consequences 0 0 0 57 2 2 4 311
China’s evolving inequality 0 0 1 18 0 0 3 51
China’s expansion of higher education: The labour market consequences of a supply shock 0 4 4 38 10 21 46 204
Chinese Peasant Choices: Migration, Rural Industry or Farming 0 0 0 85 1 1 1 261
Chinese rural migrants in urban enterprises: Three perspectives 0 0 4 76 1 2 9 305
Community, comparisons and subjective well-being in a divided society 0 0 2 166 0 0 5 492
Contrasting paradigms: segmentation and competitiveness in the formation of the chinese labour market 0 1 2 163 5 8 17 633
Cumulative causation and inequality among villages in China 0 0 0 30 1 1 3 154
Devaluation and Income Distribution in Less-Developed Economies 0 0 1 60 0 0 1 183
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 3 2 4 7 51
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? 0 0 3 82 2 3 10 328
Earnings, Schooling, Ability, and Cognitive Skills 0 0 1 438 2 3 12 984
Economic Causes and Cures of Social Instability in China 0 0 0 7 0 0 1 69
Economic Growth in China: Productivity and Policy 0 0 0 20 0 0 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 1 2 56 0 1 5 331
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China: Setting the Trap 0 1 1 67 4 6 10 214
Educational Attainment and the Rural--Urban Divide in China 0 0 0 1 1 2 15 1,458
Educational Expansion and the Kuznets Effect 1 1 3 400 2 2 14 1,046
Educational Policy and Labour Productivity: An Output Accounting Exercise 0 0 0 68 1 1 2 329
Educational expansion, government policy and wage compression 0 0 1 34 0 0 2 98
Employment Constraints and Sub-optimality in Chinese Enterprises 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 255
Explaining Income Distribution in Less Developed Countries: A Framework and an Agenda 0 0 0 1 2 2 5 223
Externality Effects of Education: Dynamics of the Adoption and Diffusion of an Innovation in Rural Ethiopia 1 1 3 39 2 3 9 591
Fair and unfair inequality in China 0 0 1 5 0 2 5 22
Fiscal decentralization: Incentives, redistribution and reform in China 0 0 0 67 2 2 3 256
From Migrants to Proletarians: Employment Experience, Mobility and Wages in Tanzania 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 131
Great Expectations? The Subjective Well-being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 1 1 4 240 3 3 24 870
Has Capitalism Underdeveloped the Labour Reserves of South Africa? 0 0 0 0 1 3 5 136
How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa? 1 1 1 54 1 2 3 257
How High is Urban Unemployment in China? 0 0 1 424 2 3 6 1,860
Income inequality and happiness: Which inequalities matter in China? 0 0 2 19 2 5 14 86
Income, aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a poor society 1 1 2 65 1 2 5 256
Increasing urban wage inequality in China 0 0 1 252 0 3 6 828
Inequality in China: An Overview 0 0 1 26 1 2 4 107
Investment and financing constraints in China: Does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 1 99 0 3 22 419
Is Happiness Infectious? 0 1 1 6 1 2 5 56
Is the Rate of Return on Primary Schooling Really 26 Per Cent? 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 269
Job Competition, Occupational Productions, and Filtering Down 0 0 0 35 1 1 3 204
Job mobility of residents and migrants in urban China 0 0 1 111 0 0 4 335
Labor retrenchment in China: Determinants and consequences 0 0 2 244 2 2 7 857
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 1 1 1 171
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 2 5 49
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? 0 0 1 93 0 0 5 375
Primary Education as an Input into Post-primary Education: A Neglected Benefit 0 0 0 4 2 2 5 850
Production Externalities of Education: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 314
Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth 0 0 0 237 0 0 6 737
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 1 123 3 3 8 578
Reform, Growth, and Inequality in China* 0 0 1 89 1 2 4 199
Rural-Urban Income Comparisons and Migration in Ghana 0 0 0 3 1 1 2 629
Segmentation or competition in China's urban labour market? 0 0 1 30 3 3 6 94
Seniority Payments, Quit Rates, and Internal Labour Markets in Britain and Japan 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 120
Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China 0 0 1 29 0 1 5 104
Subjective well-being and its determinants in rural China 1 2 3 231 4 8 12 764
Subjective well-being poverty vs. Income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 146 5 6 15 467
The Determinants of Urban Income Inequality in China 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 1,562
The Determination of the General Wage Level: Comment 0 0 0 12 2 2 2 81
The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China's Transition 0 0 0 47 3 3 5 254
The Nature of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 115 1 1 2 554
The Puzzle of Falling Happiness despite Rising Income in Rural China: Eleven Hypotheses 0 1 1 22 0 2 3 57
The Returns to Education: Increasing with Experience or Decreasing with Expansion? 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 257
The Role of Occupation in the Determination of Wages 0 0 0 53 0 0 2 132
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? 1 2 8 154 1 5 23 439
The Societal Cost of China's Rapid Economic Growth 0 0 1 6 1 3 7 50
The Spatial Contribution to Income Inequality in Rural China 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 693
The economic causes and consequences of social instability in China 0 0 1 55 0 1 8 404
The measurement of unemployment when unemployment is high 1 1 1 226 2 3 10 708
The puzzle of migrant labour shortage and rural labour surplus in China 0 1 2 107 2 5 15 414
The rate of return on educational expansion 0 0 0 34 3 3 5 81
The role of education in facilitating risk-taking and innovation in agriculture 0 1 2 230 0 1 7 1,130
The role of social capital in the labour market in China1 0 0 1 87 0 0 5 291
Three Poverties in Urban China 0 0 0 52 0 0 1 174
Towards a Labour Market in China 0 0 0 1 1 2 9 1,088
Unemployment duration and earnings of re-employed workers in urban China 0 0 0 88 1 2 2 253
Unemployment in South Africa, 1995--2003: Causes, Problems and Policies 0 1 7 266 3 8 30 1,186
Unemployment in South Africa: The Nature of the Beast 1 3 9 504 3 18 55 2,407
Wage Determination and Labour Market Inflexibility: Introduction 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 234
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 1 2 242
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 7 235 2 2 13 553
Why Do Girls in Rural China Have Lower School Enrollment? 0 0 1 221 0 0 6 647
Why Does China Invest So Much? 0 0 0 107 0 0 4 349
Why has China Grown So Fast? The Role of Physical and Human Capital Formation 0 0 0 0 2 2 5 167
Why has China’s Inequality of Household Wealth Risen Rapidly in the Twenty‐First Century? 2 2 7 23 2 6 20 67
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 1 82
Total Journal Articles 18 42 148 8,553 127 244 779 40,596


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China's Remarkable Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 1 1 9 380
Economic Transformation and Income Distribution in China over Three Decades 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 5
Economic Transformation and Income Distribution in China over Three Decades 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 4
The Rural-Urban Divide: Economic Disparities and Interactions in China 0 0 0 0 3 5 23 11,617
Towards a Labour Market in China 0 0 0 0 1 1 6 1,229
Total Books 0 0 0 0 6 9 42 13,235


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China’s Labour Market: Evolution and Impediments 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4
The Determinants of Educational Attainment in China 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 12
The Rural–Urban Divide and the Evaluation of Political Economy in China 0 0 1 19 2 4 8 67
Why Urban Wages Differ in China 0 0 0 0 3 3 3 6
Workers in China’s Rural Industries 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 8
Total Chapters 0 0 2 21 6 9 17 97


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