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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 1 3 91 0 4 13 317
Adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations in Ethiopia: the role of Education 0 1 6 245 2 3 22 1,634
Are searching and non-searching unemployment distinct states when unemployment is high? The case of South Africa 0 0 0 47 1 1 1 152
Aspirations, Adaptation and Subjective Well-Being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 0 1 2 226 0 3 6 601
Can the Augmented Solow Model Explain China's Economic Growth? A Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis 0 0 8 1,515 0 2 24 4,176
China as a Developmental State 1 1 1 263 1 1 4 612
China's macroeconomic imbalances: causes and consequences 0 0 0 103 1 1 3 393
China, South Africa and the Lewis Model 0 0 3 161 0 0 5 473
China, South Africa, and the Lewis Model 0 0 0 88 0 0 4 349
China’s Increasing Inequality of Wealth: Piketty with Chinese Characteristics? 0 0 0 29 0 2 3 64
China’s Expansion of Higher Education: the Labour Market Consequences of a Supply Shock 1 2 2 213 1 3 11 325
China’s Inequality is Important – but which Inequality? 0 0 0 69 1 1 2 117
Chinese Peasant Choices: Farming, Rural Industry or Migration 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 741
Chinese Rural Migrants in Urban Enterprises: Three Perspectives 0 0 0 2 0 0 6 777
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 4 132
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 0 317
Divergent Means and Convergent Inequality of Incomes among the Provinces and Cities of Urban China 0 0 0 15 1 1 3 110
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 11 0 1 1 122
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 29 3 6 8 153
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 19 0 1 2 143
Economic Growth, Economic Reform anf Rising Inequality in China 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 418
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China 0 0 1 101 0 0 2 249
Education externalities in rural Ethiopia: evidence from average and stochastic frontier production functions 0 0 0 50 1 1 2 234
Educational Inequality in China: The Intergenerational Dimension 0 0 0 258 0 1 6 639
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 2 5 924
How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa? 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 51
Income Inequality and Happiness: Which Inequalities Matter n China? 0 0 1 72 0 0 3 78
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? 1 1 2 75 1 1 3 130
Income, Aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a Poor Society 0 0 1 189 1 2 11 727
Increasing Wage Inequality in China: Efficiency Versus Equity? 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 425
Inequality in China: an overview 0 0 1 214 0 4 7 414
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 78 0 0 4 517
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 1 149 1 3 5 466
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 23 0 1 1 155
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 0 28 1 2 3 258
Is Happiness Infectious? 0 0 1 234 0 1 4 648
LEWIS THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS: PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYMENT, RENT-SEEKING AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 526
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 1 3 276
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 1 9 181
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 18 0 0 1 127
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 19 0 2 3 156
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 77 0 0 1 203
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 53 1 1 1 157
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 37 1 1 6 199
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 1 472 2 2 15 2,024
Subjective Well-being Poverty versus Income Poverty and Capabilities Poverty? 0 0 2 29 1 2 5 129
Subjective Well-being and Social Evaluation in a Poor Country 0 0 0 98 0 0 1 189
Subjective Well-being and its Determinants in Rural China 0 0 0 573 1 1 7 1,455
Subjective well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 8 4 6 8 53
THE DETERMINANTS OF URBAN INCOME INEQUALITY IN CHINA 0 0 0 0 1 7 8 710
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 1 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 6 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 1 1 159
The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in China, 2002-2013 1 1 8 168 2 2 18 695
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 2 3 13 33
The Role of Social Capital in the Labour Market in China 0 0 0 329 0 0 4 977
The coming economic, social, and political apocalypse? 0 0 0 7 0 3 6 32
The direct and indirect economic consequences of climate damage in poor countries 0 0 3 18 0 1 6 18
The economics of Communist Party membership - The Curious case of rising numbers and wage premium during China’s transition 0 0 0 59 0 2 4 386
The puzzle of falling happiness despite rising income in rural China: ten hypotheses 0 1 2 54 0 1 7 121
The receding housing ladder: house price inflation, parental support, and the changing intergenerational distribution of housing in China 0 0 0 23 0 0 3 41
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 0 1 12 116
Unemployment in South Africa: The nature of the beast 0 0 0 46 1 3 6 271
Unemployment in South Africa: the nature of the beast 0 1 4 801 1 2 9 4,661
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 0 2 11 2,138
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 0 2 820
Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change 0 0 1 269 2 4 14 1,063
Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change 0 0 0 149 0 0 1 850
Total Working Papers 4 11 58 11,350 37 100 405 50,367


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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 1 1 3 11 2 3 7 43
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 0 4 11 735
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 0 2 20 501 1 6 42 1,346
Caste discrimination in the Indian urban labour market 4 5 12 626 6 14 34 1,466
Causes et conséquences des réductions d'effectifs dans les entreprises publiques en Chine 0 0 0 4 1 1 4 119
China as a Developmental State 1 1 4 55 2 7 19 210
China's growing but slowing inequality of household wealth, 2013–2018: A challenge to ‘common prosperity’? 0 0 3 12 1 1 15 39
China’s Macroeconomic Imbalances: Causes and Consequences 0 0 0 57 0 1 2 309
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 3 4 4 38 6 15 39 194
Chinese Peasant Choices: Migration, Rural Industry or Farming 0 0 0 85 0 0 0 260
Chinese rural migrants in urban enterprises: Three perspectives 0 0 4 76 0 1 8 304
Community, comparisons and subjective well-being in a divided society 0 1 2 166 0 2 5 492
Contrasting paradigms: segmentation and competitiveness in the formation of the chinese labour market 0 1 2 163 2 3 13 628
Cumulative causation and inequality among villages in China 0 0 0 30 0 2 2 153
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 1 2 6 49
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? 0 0 3 82 0 1 9 326
Earnings, Schooling, Ability, and Cognitive Skills 0 0 1 438 0 4 10 982
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 1 2 2 56 1 3 6 331
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China: Setting the Trap 1 1 1 67 2 2 6 210
Educational Attainment and the Rural--Urban Divide in China 0 0 0 1 1 3 15 1,457
Educational Expansion and the Kuznets Effect 0 0 2 399 0 1 16 1,044
Educational Policy and Labour Productivity: An Output Accounting Exercise 0 0 0 68 0 1 1 328
Educational expansion, government policy and wage compression 0 0 1 34 0 1 2 98
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 3 221
Externality Effects of Education: Dynamics of the Adoption and Diffusion of an Innovation in Rural Ethiopia 0 0 2 38 1 1 7 589
Fair and unfair inequality in China 0 0 3 5 2 2 7 22
Fiscal decentralization: Incentives, redistribution and reform in China 0 0 0 67 0 0 1 254
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 0 3 239 0 3 25 867
Has Capitalism Underdeveloped the Labour Reserves of South Africa? 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 135
How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa? 0 0 0 53 1 2 2 256
How High is Urban Unemployment in China? 0 0 1 424 1 1 4 1,858
Income inequality and happiness: Which inequalities matter in China? 0 0 2 19 2 3 13 84
Income, aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a poor society 0 0 1 64 1 1 4 255
Increasing urban wage inequality in China 0 0 1 252 1 3 6 828
Inequality in China: An Overview 0 0 1 26 0 1 3 106
Investment and financing constraints in China: Does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 1 99 2 4 24 419
Is Happiness Infectious? 0 1 1 6 0 3 4 55
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 1 35 0 0 4 203
Job mobility of residents and migrants in urban China 0 0 1 111 0 0 5 335
Labor retrenchment in China: Determinants and consequences 0 0 2 244 0 0 5 855
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 1 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 2 5 375
Primary Education as an Input into Post-primary Education: A Neglected Benefit 0 0 0 4 0 1 3 848
Production Externalities of Education: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 313
Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth 0 0 0 237 0 0 7 737
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 1 123 0 0 5 575
Reform, Growth, and Inequality in China* 0 0 1 89 1 1 3 198
Rural-Urban Income Comparisons and Migration in Ghana 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 628
Segmentation or competition in China's urban labour market? 0 0 1 30 0 1 3 91
Seniority Payments, Quit Rates, and Internal Labour Markets in Britain and Japan 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 120
Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China 0 0 1 29 1 1 5 104
Subjective well-being and its determinants in rural China 0 1 2 230 0 5 9 760
Subjective well-being poverty vs. Income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 146 1 1 11 462
The Determinants of Urban Income Inequality in China 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 1,561
The Determination of the General Wage Level: Comment 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 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 1 2 251
The Nature of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 115 0 0 1 553
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 1 3 132
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 1 8 153 4 5 24 438
The Societal Cost of China's Rapid Economic Growth 0 0 1 6 2 2 6 49
The Spatial Contribution to Income Inequality in Rural China 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 692
The economic causes and consequences of social instability in China 0 0 1 55 0 3 9 404
The measurement of unemployment when unemployment is high 0 0 0 225 0 2 9 706
The puzzle of migrant labour shortage and rural labour surplus in China 1 1 2 107 3 4 14 412
The rate of return on educational expansion 0 0 0 34 0 1 2 78
The role of education in facilitating risk-taking and innovation in agriculture 1 1 2 230 1 3 8 1,130
The role of social capital in the labour market in China1 0 0 1 87 0 1 6 291
Three Poverties in Urban China 0 0 1 52 0 0 2 174
Towards a Labour Market in China 0 0 0 1 0 3 8 1,087
Unemployment duration and earnings of re-employed workers in urban China 0 0 0 88 1 1 3 252
Unemployment in South Africa, 1995--2003: Causes, Problems and Policies 1 1 7 266 2 5 29 1,183
Unemployment in South Africa: The Nature of the Beast 0 2 10 503 8 19 59 2,404
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 1 2 78
Wages and Employment in Developed and Underdeveloped Economies 0 0 0 41 0 0 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 0 0 7 235 0 0 11 551
Why Do Girls in Rural China Have Lower School Enrollment? 0 0 1 221 0 0 7 647
Why Does China Invest So Much? 0 0 0 107 0 1 4 349
Why has China Grown So Fast? The Role of Physical and Human Capital Formation 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 165
Why has China’s Inequality of Household Wealth Risen Rapidly in the Twenty‐First Century? 0 0 6 21 2 4 19 65
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 1 1 82
Total Journal Articles 15 27 142 8,535 66 184 717 40,469


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China's Remarkable Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 379
Economic Transformation and Income Distribution in China over Three Decades 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 4
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 0 3 21 11,614
Towards a Labour Market in China 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 1,228
Total Books 0 0 0 0 0 4 38 13,229


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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 2 19 2 3 7 65
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 1 2 7
Total Chapters 0 0 3 21 2 4 12 91


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