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A Spatial Analysis of Wages and Incomes in Urban China: Divergent Means, Convergent Inequality 0 0 0 1 0 0 7 238
A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China, and the Lewis Model 0 0 8 99 3 4 39 356
Adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations in Ethiopia: the role of Education 0 0 0 245 2 2 23 1,655
Are searching and non-searching unemployment distinct states when unemployment is high? The case of South Africa 0 0 1 48 0 0 17 168
Aspirations, Adaptation and Subjective Well-Being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 0 0 0 226 2 3 30 631
Can the Augmented Solow Model Explain China's Economic Growth? A Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis 0 0 3 1,518 0 4 44 4,220
China as a Developmental State 0 0 3 265 0 4 31 642
China's macroeconomic imbalances: causes and consequences 0 0 0 103 1 2 23 415
China, South Africa and the Lewis Model 0 0 0 161 0 0 6 479
China, South Africa, and the Lewis Model 0 0 0 88 0 0 11 360
China’s Increasing Inequality of Wealth: Piketty with Chinese Characteristics? 0 0 1 30 0 1 11 75
China’s Expansion of Higher Education: the Labour Market Consequences of a Supply Shock 0 1 4 216 3 7 33 357
China’s Inequality is Important – but which Inequality? 0 0 0 69 0 0 8 124
Chinese Peasant Choices: Farming, Rural Industry or Migration 0 0 0 0 2 2 13 754
Chinese Rural Migrants in Urban Enterprises: Three Perspectives 0 0 0 2 0 2 11 788
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 119 1 2 8 579
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 20 1 5 24 156
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 9 2 3 13 139
Cumulative Causation and Inequality Among Villages in China 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 327
Divergent Means and Convergent Inequality of Incomes among the Provinces and Cities of Urban China 0 0 1 16 1 2 14 123
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 11 0 1 10 132
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 15 0 0 9 123
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 19 0 0 21 164
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 29 0 0 28 178
Economic Growth, Economic Reform anf Rising Inequality in China 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 428
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China 0 0 0 101 0 0 7 256
Education externalities in rural Ethiopia: evidence from average and stochastic frontier production functions 0 1 3 53 2 7 25 258
Educational Inequality in China: The Intergenerational Dimension 0 0 1 259 0 1 17 656
Fiscal Decentralisation, Redistribution and Reform in China 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 117
Great Expectations? The Subjective Well-Being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 0 0 0 327 2 2 20 944
How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa? 0 0 1 15 1 2 18 69
Income Inequality and Happiness: Which Inequalities Matter n China? 0 0 1 73 0 1 15 93
Income Inequality in Rural China: Communities, Households and Resources Mobility 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 94
Income inequality and happiness: perceived or actual, widely or narrowly defined, fair or unfair, self- or community-centred inequality? 0 0 1 75 2 2 21 150
Income, Aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a Poor Society 0 0 3 192 2 7 40 766
Increasing Wage Inequality in China: Efficiency Versus Equity? 0 0 0 1 0 0 7 432
Inequality in China: an overview 0 0 0 214 0 2 14 428
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 92 0 1 23 298
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 28 1 2 21 278
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 78 3 6 51 568
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 23 0 0 8 163
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 149 3 3 25 490
Is Happiness Infectious? 0 0 0 234 2 2 9 657
LEWIS THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS: PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYMENT, RENT-SEEKING AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 0 0 0 18 544
Labour market policies and outcomes in Zimbabwe 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 63
Lewis through a looking glass: public sector employment, rent-seeking, and economic growth 0 0 0 74 2 4 36 311
Memory and Anticipation: New Empirical Support for an Old Theory of the Utility Function 0 0 0 54 0 0 4 135
Minorities in Rural China: Poorer but Inherently Happier? 0 0 0 106 0 2 11 192
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 1 20 1 2 17 173
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 77 2 2 16 219
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 18 0 0 9 136
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 11 0 1 11 118
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 53 0 0 10 166
New integrated concepts and measures of income poverty and of 'common prosperity' in China 0 1 1 9 0 2 22 33
Price Scissors and Intersectoral Resource Transfers: Who Paid Industrialization in China? 0 0 0 0 3 3 7 105
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 37 1 1 11 209
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 1 1 473 2 6 35 2,057
Subjective Well-being Poverty versus Income Poverty and Capabilities Poverty? 0 0 1 30 0 0 15 143
Subjective Well-being and Social Evaluation in a Poor Country 1 1 1 99 1 1 18 207
Subjective Well-being and its Determinants in Rural China 0 0 0 573 2 3 39 1,493
Subjective well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 8 0 0 8 57
THE DETERMINANTS OF URBAN INCOME INEQUALITY IN CHINA 0 0 0 0 0 1 12 721
THE SPATIAL CONTRIBUTION TO INCOME INEQUALITY IN RURAL CHINA 0 0 0 3 0 0 12 675
The Curious Case of Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China 0 0 0 27 0 1 20 129
The Determinants of Educational Attainment in China 0 0 0 0 0 1 13 725
The Economic Causes and Consequences of Social Instability in China 0 0 0 286 0 3 21 7,076
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 11 489
The Evolution of the Migrant Labor Market in China, 2002-2007 0 0 0 181 3 3 8 167
The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in China, 2002-2013 0 0 5 172 0 2 35 728
The Length of Life and the Standard of Living: Economic Influences on Premature Death in China 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 126
The Principal-Agent Problem, Economic Growth, Subjective Wellbeing and Social Instability: China 0 0 0 74 0 0 8 338
The Puzzle of Migrant Labour Shortage and Rural Labour Surplus in China 0 0 0 793 4 9 29 1,648
The Quality of Society and Happiness: Fairness, Trust, and Community in China 0 0 2 16 0 0 20 51
The Role of Social Capital in the Labour Market in China 0 0 2 331 0 1 24 1,001
The coming economic, social, and political apocalypse? 0 0 0 7 0 0 6 38
The direct and indirect economic consequences of climate damage in poor countries 0 0 0 18 2 2 15 33
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 9 395
The puzzle of falling happiness despite rising income in rural China: ten hypotheses 0 0 0 54 0 3 14 135
The receding housing ladder: house price inflation, parental support, and the changing intergenerational distribution of housing in China 0 0 0 23 0 1 23 64
Unemployment and wages in South Africa: A spatial approach 0 0 1 38 0 1 19 158
Unemployment in South Africa, 1995-2003: Causes, Problems and Policies 0 0 0 31 2 3 20 136
Unemployment in South Africa: The nature of the beast 0 0 0 46 1 1 10 280
Unemployment in South Africa: the nature of the beast 1 1 1 802 1 2 17 4,677
Urban Insiders versus Rural Outsiders: Complementarity or Competition in China`s Urban Labour Market? 0 0 0 140 0 3 20 608
Well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 1 586 0 1 17 2,155
Well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 37 0 1 9 167
Why does China invest so much? 0 1 2 338 0 2 15 835
Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change 0 0 1 150 2 3 25 875
Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change 0 0 2 271 1 3 29 1,090
Total Working Papers 2 7 53 11,481 67 157 1,538 52,209


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A Simulation Alternative to the Comparative R2 Approach to Decomposing Inequality 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 80
A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China and the Lewis Model 0 0 4 14 2 5 28 69
Addendum: Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 163
An Analysis of Racial Wage Discrimination in South Africa 0 0 0 0 1 2 12 747
Black Wages and Choice of Techniques in South Africa 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 74
Can the augmented Solow model explain China's remarkable economic growth? A cross-country panel data analysis 0 0 10 511 1 8 65 1,410
Caste discrimination in the Indian urban labour market 0 1 14 636 1 2 34 1,494
Causes et conséquences des réductions d'effectifs dans les entreprises publiques en Chine 0 0 0 4 0 0 12 130
China as a Developmental State 0 1 7 61 1 13 51 259
China's growing but slowing inequality of household wealth, 2013–2018: A challenge to ‘common prosperity’? 0 0 3 15 0 0 17 55
China’s Macroeconomic Imbalances: Causes and Consequences 0 0 0 57 0 2 9 318
China’s evolving inequality 0 0 0 18 0 0 11 62
China’s expansion of higher education: The labour market consequences of a supply shock 0 1 7 42 5 16 57 245
Chinese Peasant Choices: Migration, Rural Industry or Farming 0 0 0 85 0 0 9 269
Chinese rural migrants in urban enterprises: Three perspectives 0 0 0 76 0 1 14 318
Community, comparisons and subjective well-being in a divided society 1 1 1 167 1 2 15 507
Contrasting paradigms: segmentation and competitiveness in the formation of the chinese labour market 0 0 0 163 0 0 21 647
Cumulative causation and inequality among villages in China 0 0 0 30 0 1 18 171
Devaluation and Income Distribution in Less-Developed Economies 0 0 0 60 0 0 6 189
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 3 1 2 20 68
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? 0 0 1 83 0 3 21 347
Earnings, Schooling, Ability, and Cognitive Skills 0 1 1 439 1 2 17 999
Economic Causes and Cures of Social Instability in China 0 0 0 7 0 1 8 77
Economic Growth in China: Productivity and Policy 0 0 0 20 0 1 7 82
Economic Policies for a Harmonious Society: A Symposium: Editorial Introduction 0 0 0 10 0 0 8 38
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China: Closing the Trap 0 0 1 56 0 1 14 344
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China: Setting the Trap 0 0 1 67 1 2 18 226
Educational Attainment and the Rural--Urban Divide in China 0 0 0 1 1 2 15 1,471
Educational Expansion and the Kuznets Effect 0 0 2 401 2 4 25 1,069
Educational Policy and Labour Productivity: An Output Accounting Exercise 0 0 0 68 0 1 5 333
Educational expansion, government policy and wage compression 0 0 0 34 0 1 11 109
Employment Constraints and Sub-optimality in Chinese Enterprises 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 262
Explaining Income Distribution in Less Developed Countries: A Framework and an Agenda 0 0 0 1 0 0 16 237
Externality Effects of Education: Dynamics of the Adoption and Diffusion of an Innovation in Rural Ethiopia 1 1 2 40 1 2 17 605
Fair and unfair inequality in China 0 0 0 5 0 0 12 32
Fiscal decentralization: Incentives, redistribution and reform in China 0 0 0 67 0 0 16 270
From Migrants to Proletarians: Employment Experience, Mobility and Wages in Tanzania 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 133
Great Expectations? The Subjective Well-being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 1 2 5 244 2 12 44 911
Has Capitalism Underdeveloped the Labour Reserves of South Africa? 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 142
How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa? 0 0 2 55 2 3 22 277
How High is Urban Unemployment in China? 0 0 1 425 1 2 30 1,887
Income inequality and happiness: Which inequalities matter in China? 1 2 3 22 1 6 28 110
Income, aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a poor society 0 0 4 68 0 6 28 282
Increasing urban wage inequality in China 0 0 2 254 1 3 19 846
Inequality in China: An Overview 0 0 0 26 0 1 13 119
Investment and financing constraints in China: Does working capital management make a difference? 0 3 6 105 0 7 47 464
Is Happiness Infectious? 0 0 0 6 0 0 5 60
Is the Rate of Return on Primary Schooling Really 26 Per Cent? 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 277
Job Competition, Occupational Productions, and Filtering Down 0 0 0 35 0 1 9 212
Job mobility of residents and migrants in urban China 0 0 0 111 0 3 17 352
Labor retrenchment in China: Determinants and consequences 0 0 0 244 0 1 12 867
Labour Allocation and Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 151
Labour Market Issues in Zimbabwe: Lessons for South Africa 0 0 0 41 0 1 8 178
Memory and Anticipation of Income: New Empirical Support for an Old Theory of the Utility Function 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 18
Negative Investment in China: Financing Constraints and Restructuring versus Growth 0 0 0 5 2 3 17 65
On the Determination of the General Wage Level: A Rejoinder 0 0 0 10 0 1 2 67
Price Scissors and Intersectoral Resource Transfers: Who Paid for Industrialization in China? 0 0 1 94 5 5 23 398
Primary Education as an Input into Post-primary Education: A Neglected Benefit 0 0 0 4 1 1 8 856
Production Externalities of Education: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia 0 0 0 0 2 4 11 324
Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth 0 0 1 238 0 0 8 745
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 123 0 1 15 590
Reform, Growth, and Inequality in China* 0 0 2 91 2 4 16 213
Rural-Urban Income Comparisons and Migration in Ghana 0 0 0 3 0 0 7 635
Segmentation or competition in China's urban labour market? 0 0 0 30 0 0 13 104
Seniority Payments, Quit Rates, and Internal Labour Markets in Britain and Japan 0 0 0 0 0 3 7 127
Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China 0 0 0 29 1 2 16 119
Subjective well-being and its determinants in rural China 1 1 6 236 3 6 29 789
Subjective well-being poverty vs. Income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 4 150 0 0 29 490
The Determinants of Urban Income Inequality in China 0 0 0 1 0 1 6 1,567
The Determination of the General Wage Level: Comment 0 0 0 12 0 0 4 83
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 10 261
The Nature of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 115 0 0 3 556
The Puzzle of Falling Happiness despite Rising Income in Rural China: Eleven Hypotheses 0 0 1 23 0 2 14 71
The Quality of Society and Happiness: Fairness, Trust, and Community in China 0 0 2 2 1 1 16 19
The Returns to Education: Increasing with Experience or Decreasing with Expansion? 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 262
The Role of Occupation in the Determination of Wages 0 0 0 53 0 1 9 141
The Role of the Firm in Wage Determination: An African Case Study 0 0 0 16 0 0 4 68
The Rural-Urban Divide in China: Income but Not Happiness? 1 1 7 159 1 7 51 485
The Societal Cost of China's Rapid Economic Growth 0 0 0 6 15 18 33 80
The Spatial Contribution to Income Inequality in Rural China 0 0 0 0 0 0 12 704
The direct and indirect economic consequences of climate damage in poor countries 0 0 1 1 0 0 10 12
The economic causes and consequences of social instability in China 0 0 1 56 0 1 17 421
The measurement of unemployment when unemployment is high 0 1 2 227 0 4 14 720
The puzzle of migrant labour shortage and rural labour surplus in China 0 0 1 107 1 3 23 432
The rate of return on educational expansion 0 0 0 34 0 1 7 85
The role of education in facilitating risk-taking and innovation in agriculture 0 0 2 231 1 2 14 1,143
The role of social capital in the labour market in China1 0 0 2 89 1 2 13 304
Three Poverties in Urban China 0 0 0 52 0 0 13 187
Towards a Labour Market in China 0 0 0 1 1 1 14 1,101
Unemployment duration and earnings of re-employed workers in urban China 0 1 2 90 0 2 10 261
Unemployment in South Africa, 1995--2003: Causes, Problems and Policies 0 1 4 269 1 2 40 1,221
Unemployment in South Africa: The Nature of the Beast 0 0 7 510 4 13 70 2,466
Wage Determination and Labour Market Inflexibility: Introduction 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 238
Wage Structure and Labour Turnover 0 0 0 16 0 0 7 85
Wages and Employment in Developed and Underdeveloped Economies 0 0 0 41 0 1 10 251
Wages in Africa: What Should a Foreign Firm Do? 0 0 0 1 1 2 6 328
Wages, firm profitability and labor market segmentation in urban China 0 0 0 235 1 1 13 564
Why Do Girls in Rural China Have Lower School Enrollment? 0 1 2 223 0 1 15 662
Why Does China Invest So Much? 0 0 0 107 2 2 15 364
Why has China Grown So Fast? The Role of Physical and Human Capital Formation 0 0 0 0 0 0 86 251
Why has China’s Inequality of Household Wealth Risen Rapidly in the Twenty‐First Century? 0 0 6 27 1 1 31 94
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 5 87
Total Journal Articles 6 19 131 8,651 73 226 1,750 42,158


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China's Remarkable Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 0 1 17 396
Economic Transformation and Income Distribution in China over Three Decades 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 8
Economic Transformation and Income Distribution in China over Three Decades 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 9
The Rural-Urban Divide: Economic Disparities and Interactions in China 0 0 0 0 2 6 26 11,640
Towards a Labour Market in China 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 1,241
Total Books 0 0 0 0 3 9 65 13,294


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China’s Labour Market: Evolution and Impediments 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 12
The Determinants of Educational Attainment in China 0 0 0 2 0 1 9 21
The Rural–Urban Divide and the Evaluation of Political Economy in China 0 0 0 19 0 0 12 75
Why Urban Wages Differ in China 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 11
Workers in China’s Rural Industries 0 0 0 0 16 16 24 31
Total Chapters 0 0 0 21 16 18 61 150


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