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A Spatial Analysis of Wages and Incomes in Urban China: Divergent Means, Convergent Inequality 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 232
A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China, and the Lewis Model 7 7 10 98 14 14 27 331
Adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations in Ethiopia: the role of Education 0 0 5 245 1 3 20 1,635
Are searching and non-searching unemployment distinct states when unemployment is high? The case of South Africa 0 1 1 48 0 6 6 157
Aspirations, Adaptation and Subjective Well-Being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 0 0 2 226 4 4 10 605
Can the Augmented Solow Model Explain China's Economic Growth? A Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis 1 1 4 1,516 2 6 17 4,182
China as a Developmental State 0 2 2 264 0 4 5 615
China's macroeconomic imbalances: causes and consequences 0 0 0 103 4 7 9 399
China, South Africa and the Lewis Model 0 0 2 161 1 2 6 475
China, South Africa, and the Lewis Model 0 0 0 88 0 1 5 350
China’s Increasing Inequality of Wealth: Piketty with Chinese Characteristics? 1 1 1 30 2 3 5 67
China’s Expansion of Higher Education: the Labour Market Consequences of a Supply Shock 0 1 2 213 0 3 9 327
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 2 3 4 744
Chinese Rural Migrants in Urban Enterprises: Three Perspectives 0 0 0 2 0 2 3 779
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 119 1 1 1 572
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 9 1 2 3 128
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 20 1 2 2 134
Cumulative Causation and Inequality Among Villages in China 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 319
Divergent Means and Convergent Inequality of Incomes among the Provinces and Cities of Urban China 0 0 0 15 1 3 3 112
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 19 6 9 11 152
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 11 1 3 4 125
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 15 1 2 2 116
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 29 0 4 9 154
Economic Growth, Economic Reform anf Rising Inequality in China 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 419
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China 0 0 1 101 0 1 3 250
Education externalities in rural Ethiopia: evidence from average and stochastic frontier production functions 0 1 1 51 2 4 5 237
Educational Inequality in China: The Intergenerational Dimension 0 1 1 259 1 4 9 643
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? 0 1 1 15 2 3 3 54
Income Inequality and Happiness: Which Inequalities Matter n China? 0 0 1 72 3 4 7 82
Income Inequality in Rural China: Communities, Households and Resources Mobility 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 92
Income inequality and happiness: perceived or actual, widely or narrowly defined, fair or unfair, self- or community-centred inequality? 0 1 2 75 2 3 5 132
Income, Aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a Poor Society 1 2 3 191 6 8 17 734
Increasing Wage Inequality in China: Efficiency Versus Equity? 0 0 0 1 2 3 3 428
Inequality in China: an overview 0 0 1 214 1 1 8 415
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 92 1 1 3 276
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 28 2 3 5 260
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 78 1 2 6 519
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 23 1 2 3 157
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 1 149 1 2 6 467
Is Happiness Infectious? 0 0 0 234 1 2 5 650
LEWIS THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS: PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYMENT, RENT-SEEKING AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 0 0 4 5 530
Labour market policies and outcomes in Zimbabwe 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 60
Lewis through a looking glass: public sector employment, rent-seeking, and economic growth 0 0 0 74 1 3 5 278
Memory and Anticipation: New Empirical Support for an Old Theory of the Utility Function 0 0 0 54 0 1 1 132
Minorities in Rural China: Poorer but Inherently Happier? 0 0 0 106 0 0 8 181
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 11 1 1 1 108
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 77 1 6 7 209
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 19 3 6 9 162
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 0 1 2 128
Price Scissors and Intersectoral Resource Transfers: Who Paid Industrialization in China? 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 99
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 37 2 3 7 201
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 472 3 7 19 2,029
Subjective Well-being Poverty versus Income Poverty and Capabilities Poverty? 0 0 1 29 1 4 7 132
Subjective Well-being and Social Evaluation in a Poor Country 0 0 0 98 0 1 2 190
Subjective Well-being and its Determinants in Rural China 0 0 0 573 7 9 13 1,463
Subjective well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 8 1 5 8 54
THE DETERMINANTS OF URBAN INCOME INEQUALITY IN CHINA 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 711
THE SPATIAL CONTRIBUTION TO INCOME INEQUALITY IN RURAL CHINA 0 0 0 3 2 4 5 667
The Curious Case of Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China 0 0 0 27 0 1 1 110
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 2 2 7 7,057
The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition 0 0 0 132 2 3 4 481
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 6 168 1 8 19 701
The Length of Life and the Standard of Living: Economic Influences on Premature Death in China 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 122
The Puzzle of Migrant Labour Shortage and Rural Labour Surplus in China 0 0 1 793 2 2 5 1,621
The Quality of Society and Happiness: Fairness, Trust, and Community in China 0 0 0 14 2 5 13 36
The Role of Social Capital in the Labour Market in China 1 1 1 330 2 3 6 980
The coming economic, social, and political apocalypse? 0 0 0 7 1 3 9 35
The direct and indirect economic consequences of climate damage in poor countries 0 0 3 18 2 4 9 22
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 5 388
The puzzle of falling happiness despite rising income in rural China: ten hypotheses 0 0 2 54 2 2 8 123
The receding housing ladder: house price inflation, parental support, and the changing intergenerational distribution of housing in China 0 0 0 23 4 6 8 47
Unemployment and wages in South Africa: A spatial approach 0 0 0 37 1 1 5 140
Unemployment in South Africa, 1995-2003: Causes, Problems and Policies 0 0 0 31 3 4 15 120
Unemployment in South Africa: The nature of the beast 0 0 0 46 0 5 9 275
Unemployment in South Africa: the nature of the beast 0 0 3 801 1 3 10 4,663
Urban Insiders versus Rural Outsiders: Complementarity or Competition in China`s Urban Labour Market? 0 0 0 140 2 2 4 590
Well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 1 1 1 586 6 8 14 2,146
Well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 37 1 2 4 160
Why does China invest so much? 0 0 0 336 2 3 4 823
Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change 0 0 0 269 5 10 19 1,071
Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change 0 0 0 149 2 2 3 852
Total Working Papers 12 22 60 11,368 141 275 563 50,605


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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 2 5 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 11 737
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 1 4 19 505 14 22 53 1,367
Caste discrimination in the Indian urban labour market 2 8 15 630 5 15 39 1,475
Causes et conséquences des réductions d'effectifs dans les entreprises publiques en Chine 0 0 0 4 1 2 5 120
China as a Developmental State 2 3 6 57 6 8 24 216
China's growing but slowing inequality of household wealth, 2013–2018: A challenge to ‘common prosperity’? 1 3 6 15 3 6 17 44
China’s Macroeconomic Imbalances: Causes and Consequences 0 0 0 57 0 2 4 311
China’s evolving inequality 0 0 1 18 2 2 5 53
China’s expansion of higher education: The labour market consequences of a supply shock 0 3 4 38 3 19 46 207
Chinese Peasant Choices: Migration, Rural Industry or Farming 0 0 0 85 0 1 1 261
Chinese rural migrants in urban enterprises: Three perspectives 0 0 2 76 1 2 7 306
Community, comparisons and subjective well-being in a divided society 0 0 2 166 4 4 9 496
Contrasting paradigms: segmentation and competitiveness in the formation of the chinese labour market 0 0 2 163 4 11 21 637
Cumulative causation and inequality among villages in China 0 0 0 30 1 2 4 155
Devaluation and Income Distribution in Less-Developed Economies 0 0 1 60 1 1 2 184
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 3 4 7 11 55
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? 0 0 3 82 2 4 11 330
Earnings, Schooling, Ability, and Cognitive Skills 0 0 0 438 0 2 11 984
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 2 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 2 3 6 333
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China: Setting the Trap 0 1 1 67 0 6 9 214
Educational Attainment and the Rural--Urban Divide in China 0 0 0 1 1 3 15 1,459
Educational Expansion and the Kuznets Effect 0 1 3 400 4 6 18 1,050
Educational Policy and Labour Productivity: An Output Accounting Exercise 0 0 0 68 1 2 3 330
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 0 1 2 255
Explaining Income Distribution in Less Developed Countries: A Framework and an Agenda 0 0 0 1 1 3 6 224
Externality Effects of Education: Dynamics of the Adoption and Diffusion of an Innovation in Rural Ethiopia 0 1 3 39 0 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 0 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 0 1 4 240 3 6 25 873
Has Capitalism Underdeveloped the Labour Reserves of South Africa? 0 0 0 0 1 4 6 137
How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa? 1 2 2 55 2 4 5 259
How High is Urban Unemployment in China? 1 1 1 425 4 7 9 1,864
Income inequality and happiness: Which inequalities matter in China? 0 0 2 19 2 6 14 88
Income, aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a poor society 1 2 3 66 3 5 8 259
Increasing urban wage inequality in China 0 0 1 252 1 2 7 829
Inequality in China: An Overview 0 0 1 26 2 3 6 109
Investment and financing constraints in China: Does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 1 99 5 7 25 424
Is Happiness Infectious? 0 0 1 6 2 3 7 58
Is the Rate of Return on Primary Schooling Really 26 Per Cent? 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 270
Job Competition, Occupational Productions, and Filtering Down 0 0 0 35 1 2 4 205
Job mobility of residents and migrants in urban China 0 0 1 111 2 2 6 337
Labor retrenchment in China: Determinants and consequences 0 0 2 244 0 2 6 857
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 2 2 172
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 2 3 6 51
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 1 1 6 376
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 1 1 6 738
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 1 123 0 3 8 578
Reform, Growth, and Inequality in China* 1 1 2 90 2 4 6 201
Rural-Urban Income Comparisons and Migration in Ghana 0 0 0 3 1 2 3 630
Segmentation or competition in China's urban labour market? 0 0 1 30 2 5 8 96
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 0 1 3 231 1 5 13 765
Subjective well-being poverty vs. Income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 146 0 6 15 467
The Determinants of Urban Income Inequality in China 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 1,563
The Determination of the General Wage Level: Comment 0 0 0 12 1 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 0 3 5 254
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 1 4 258
The Role of Occupation in the Determination of Wages 0 0 0 53 2 2 4 134
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 7 154 4 9 22 443
The Societal Cost of China's Rapid Economic Growth 0 0 1 6 0 3 7 50
The Spatial Contribution to Income Inequality in Rural China 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 694
The economic causes and consequences of social instability in China 0 0 1 55 2 2 8 406
The measurement of unemployment when unemployment is high 0 1 1 226 1 3 11 709
The puzzle of migrant labour shortage and rural labour surplus in China 0 1 2 107 3 8 18 417
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 1 2 230 0 1 6 1,130
The role of social capital in the labour market in China1 0 0 1 87 1 1 6 292
Three Poverties in Urban China 0 0 0 52 1 1 2 175
Towards a Labour Market in China 0 0 0 1 1 2 10 1,089
Unemployment duration and earnings of re-employed workers in urban China 0 0 0 88 0 2 2 253
Unemployment in South Africa, 1995--2003: Causes, Problems and Policies 0 1 6 266 4 9 32 1,190
Unemployment in South Africa: The Nature of the Beast 2 3 11 506 5 16 60 2,412
Wage Determination and Labour Market Inflexibility: Introduction 0 0 0 1 0 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 2 3 243
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 0 2 10 553
Why Do Girls in Rural China Have Lower School Enrollment? 0 0 1 221 1 1 7 648
Why Does China Invest So Much? 0 0 0 107 4 4 8 353
Why has China Grown So Fast? The Role of Physical and Human Capital Formation 0 0 0 0 4 6 9 171
Why has China’s Inequality of Household Wealth Risen Rapidly in the Twenty‐First Century? 1 3 7 24 1 5 20 68
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 2 2 3 84
Total Journal Articles 13 46 151 8,566 143 336 878 40,739


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China's Remarkable Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 381
Economic Transformation and Income Distribution in China over Three Decades 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 4
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 3 6 22 11,620
Towards a Labour Market in China 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 1,230
Total Books 0 0 0 0 5 11 40 13,240


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China’s Labour Market: Evolution and Impediments 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 6
The Determinants of Educational Attainment in China 0 0 1 2 1 1 3 13
The Rural–Urban Divide and the Evaluation of Political Economy in China 0 0 1 19 0 4 8 67
Why Urban Wages Differ in China 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 6
Workers in China’s Rural Industries 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 9
Total Chapters 0 0 2 21 4 12 21 101


Statistics updated 2025-12-06