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A Spatial Analysis of Wages and Incomes in Urban China: Divergent Means, Convergent Inequality 0 0 0 1 4 6 6 237
A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China, and the Lewis Model 0 7 10 98 7 22 32 339
Adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations in Ethiopia: the role of Education 0 0 3 245 7 13 29 1,647
Are searching and non-searching unemployment distinct states when unemployment is high? The case of South Africa 0 0 1 48 5 6 12 163
Aspirations, Adaptation and Subjective Well-Being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 0 0 2 226 3 7 13 608
Can the Augmented Solow Model Explain China's Economic Growth? A Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis 1 2 5 1,517 7 14 29 4,194
China as a Developmental State 0 1 3 265 4 7 12 622
China's macroeconomic imbalances: causes and consequences 0 0 0 103 5 12 16 407
China, South Africa and the Lewis Model 0 0 1 161 0 2 5 476
China, South Africa, and the Lewis Model 0 0 0 88 5 6 10 356
China’s Increasing Inequality of Wealth: Piketty with Chinese Characteristics? 0 1 1 30 3 7 10 72
China’s Expansion of Higher Education: the Labour Market Consequences of a Supply Shock 0 1 3 214 6 7 14 334
China’s Inequality is Important – but which Inequality? 0 0 0 69 3 4 5 121
Chinese Peasant Choices: Farming, Rural Industry or Migration 0 0 0 0 2 6 7 748
Chinese Rural Migrants in Urban Enterprises: Three Perspectives 0 0 0 2 2 2 4 781
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 119 3 5 5 576
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 20 3 6 7 139
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 9 5 8 9 135
Cumulative Causation and Inequality Among Villages in China 0 0 0 0 4 6 7 324
Divergent Means and Convergent Inequality of Incomes among the Provinces and Cities of Urban China 1 1 1 16 5 7 9 118
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 19 8 15 19 161
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 29 6 12 20 166
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 11 3 4 7 128
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 15 2 4 5 119
Economic Growth, Economic Reform anf Rising Inequality in China 0 0 0 0 3 4 5 423
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China 0 0 0 101 0 1 3 251
Education externalities in rural Ethiopia: evidence from average and stochastic frontier production functions 0 0 1 51 2 8 10 243
Educational Inequality in China: The Intergenerational Dimension 0 0 1 259 5 7 13 649
Fiscal Decentralisation, Redistribution and Reform in China 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 115
Great Expectations? The Subjective Well-Being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 0 0 1 327 8 9 13 933
How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa? 0 0 1 15 3 6 7 58
Income Inequality and Happiness: Which Inequalities Matter n China? 0 0 1 72 2 7 11 86
Income Inequality in Rural China: Communities, Households and Resources Mobility 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 92
Income inequality and happiness: perceived or actual, widely or narrowly defined, fair or unfair, self- or community-centred inequality? 0 0 1 75 4 8 9 138
Income, Aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a Poor Society 0 1 3 191 6 16 27 744
Increasing Wage Inequality in China: Efficiency Versus Equity? 0 0 0 1 1 3 4 429
Inequality in China: an overview 0 0 0 214 3 6 12 420
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 1 149 10 13 17 479
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 28 9 15 18 273
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 92 16 20 21 295
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 78 7 10 13 528
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 23 2 5 7 161
Is Happiness Infectious? 0 0 0 234 0 3 7 652
LEWIS THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS: PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYMENT, RENT-SEEKING AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 0 10 12 17 542
Labour market policies and outcomes in Zimbabwe 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 61
Lewis through a looking glass: public sector employment, rent-seeking, and economic growth 0 0 0 74 17 22 25 299
Memory and Anticipation: New Empirical Support for an Old Theory of the Utility Function 0 0 0 54 1 3 4 135
Minorities in Rural China: Poorer but Inherently Happier? 0 0 0 106 4 5 13 186
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 1 1 1 20 2 6 11 165
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 18 4 4 5 132
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 11 5 6 6 113
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 53 3 5 6 162
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 77 3 5 11 213
Price Scissors and Intersectoral Resource Transfers: Who Paid Industrialization in China? 0 0 0 0 2 4 4 102
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 37 0 4 8 203
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 472 6 18 31 2,044
Subjective Well-being Poverty versus Income Poverty and Capabilities Poverty? 0 0 1 29 2 3 9 134
Subjective Well-being and Social Evaluation in a Poor Country 0 0 0 98 4 6 8 196
Subjective Well-being and its Determinants in Rural China 0 0 0 573 10 19 23 1,475
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 4 7 15 717
THE SPATIAL CONTRIBUTION TO INCOME INEQUALITY IN RURAL CHINA 0 0 0 3 4 8 10 673
The Curious Case of Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China 0 0 0 27 4 7 8 117
The Determinants of Educational Attainment in China 0 0 0 0 5 7 8 719
The Economic Causes and Consequences of Social Instability in China 0 0 0 286 4 7 12 7,062
The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition 0 0 0 132 2 6 7 485
The Evolution of the Migrant Labor Market in China, 2002-2007 0 0 0 181 1 4 5 163
The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in China, 2002-2013 2 3 9 171 2 11 27 711
The Length of Life and the Standard of Living: Economic Influences on Premature Death in China 0 0 0 0 1 4 4 125
The Puzzle of Migrant Labour Shortage and Rural Labour Surplus in China 0 0 1 793 7 9 11 1,628
The Quality of Society and Happiness: Fairness, Trust, and Community in China 0 0 0 14 4 8 18 42
The Role of Social Capital in the Labour Market in China 0 1 1 330 8 13 15 991
The coming economic, social, and political apocalypse? 0 0 0 7 0 2 8 36
The direct and indirect economic consequences of climate damage in poor countries 0 0 3 18 3 7 13 27
The economics of Communist Party membership - The Curious case of rising numbers and wage premium during China’s transition 0 0 0 59 4 6 9 393
The puzzle of falling happiness despite rising income in rural China: ten hypotheses 0 0 2 54 2 5 9 126
The receding housing ladder: house price inflation, parental support, and the changing intergenerational distribution of housing in China 0 0 0 23 5 15 18 58
Unemployment and wages in South Africa: A spatial approach 0 0 0 37 7 9 12 148
Unemployment in South Africa, 1995-2003: Causes, Problems and Policies 0 0 0 31 2 6 18 123
Unemployment in South Africa: The nature of the beast 0 0 0 46 1 2 11 277
Unemployment in South Africa: the nature of the beast 0 0 2 801 5 8 16 4,670
Urban Insiders versus Rural Outsiders: Complementarity or Competition in China`s Urban Labour Market? 0 0 0 140 4 9 11 597
Well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 37 1 2 3 161
Well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 1 1 586 2 11 17 2,151
Why does China invest so much? 0 1 1 337 3 9 11 830
Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change 0 1 1 270 5 14 28 1,080
Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change 0 0 0 149 8 15 15 865
Total Working Papers 5 22 63 11,378 355 667 1,024 51,131


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A Simulation Alternative to the Comparative R2 Approach to Decomposing Inequality 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 79
A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China and the Lewis Model 0 0 3 11 7 9 16 53
Addendum: Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 159
An Analysis of Racial Wage Discrimination in South Africa 0 0 0 0 2 2 11 739
Black Wages and Choice of Techniques in South Africa 0 0 0 0 2 4 4 71
Can the augmented Solow model explain China's remarkable economic growth? A cross-country panel data analysis 1 3 20 507 11 30 65 1,383
Caste discrimination in the Indian urban labour market 1 4 15 632 3 11 39 1,481
Causes et conséquences des réductions d'effectifs dans les entreprises publiques en Chine 0 0 0 4 3 6 9 125
China as a Developmental State 1 3 6 58 4 11 26 221
China's growing but slowing inequality of household wealth, 2013–2018: A challenge to ‘common prosperity’? 0 1 6 15 3 7 19 48
China’s Macroeconomic Imbalances: Causes and Consequences 0 0 0 57 1 1 4 312
China’s evolving inequality 0 0 1 18 2 6 9 57
China’s expansion of higher education: The labour market consequences of a supply shock 1 1 5 39 7 13 50 217
Chinese Peasant Choices: Migration, Rural Industry or Farming 0 0 0 85 1 3 4 264
Chinese rural migrants in urban enterprises: Three perspectives 0 0 1 76 5 8 11 313
Community, comparisons and subjective well-being in a divided society 0 0 1 166 5 9 11 501
Contrasting paradigms: segmentation and competitiveness in the formation of the chinese labour market 0 0 2 163 3 8 22 641
Cumulative causation and inequality among villages in China 0 0 0 30 5 9 12 163
Devaluation and Income Distribution in Less-Developed Economies 0 0 0 60 1 3 3 186
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 3 6 11 18 62
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? 1 1 3 83 7 11 18 339
Earnings, Schooling, Ability, and Cognitive Skills 0 0 0 438 7 9 20 993
Economic Causes and Cures of Social Instability in China 0 0 0 7 4 6 7 75
Economic Growth in China: Productivity and Policy 0 0 0 20 2 2 4 77
Economic Policies for a Harmonious Society: A Symposium: Editorial Introduction 0 0 0 10 3 4 4 34
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China: Closing the Trap 0 0 2 56 3 8 12 339
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China: Setting the Trap 0 0 1 67 4 8 16 222
Educational Attainment and the Rural--Urban Divide in China 0 0 0 1 4 7 18 1,465
Educational Expansion and the Kuznets Effect 0 0 2 400 4 8 17 1,054
Educational Policy and Labour Productivity: An Output Accounting Exercise 0 0 0 68 0 1 3 330
Educational expansion, government policy and wage compression 0 0 1 34 1 4 6 102
Employment Constraints and Sub-optimality in Chinese Enterprises 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 257
Explaining Income Distribution in Less Developed Countries: A Framework and an Agenda 0 0 0 1 5 6 11 229
Externality Effects of Education: Dynamics of the Adoption and Diffusion of an Innovation in Rural Ethiopia 0 0 3 39 4 9 18 600
Fair and unfair inequality in China 0 0 0 5 3 4 7 26
Fiscal decentralization: Incentives, redistribution and reform in China 0 0 0 67 4 7 10 263
From Migrants to Proletarians: Employment Experience, Mobility and Wages in Tanzania 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 132
Great Expectations? The Subjective Well-being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 1 1 5 241 8 15 34 885
Has Capitalism Underdeveloped the Labour Reserves of South Africa? 0 0 0 0 2 5 10 141
How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa? 0 1 2 55 8 13 16 270
How High is Urban Unemployment in China? 0 1 1 425 9 14 18 1,874
Income inequality and happiness: Which inequalities matter in China? 1 1 3 20 6 9 18 95
Income, aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a poor society 0 1 2 66 2 6 10 262
Increasing urban wage inequality in China 0 1 2 253 0 8 13 836
Inequality in China: An Overview 0 0 0 26 5 7 10 114
Investment and financing constraints in China: Does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 1 99 4 13 27 432
Is Happiness Infectious? 0 0 1 6 0 2 7 58
Is the Rate of Return on Primary Schooling Really 26 Per Cent? 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 271
Job Competition, Occupational Productions, and Filtering Down 0 0 0 35 4 6 8 210
Job mobility of residents and migrants in urban China 0 0 0 111 5 9 11 344
Labor retrenchment in China: Determinants and consequences 0 0 1 244 3 5 9 862
Labour Allocation and Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 149
Labour Market Issues in Zimbabwe: Lessons for South Africa 0 0 0 41 2 3 4 174
Memory and Anticipation of Income: New Empirical Support for an Old Theory of the Utility Function 0 0 0 2 2 4 4 18
Negative Investment in China: Financing Constraints and Restructuring versus Growth 0 0 0 5 3 7 10 56
On the Determination of the General Wage Level: A Rejoinder 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 65
Price Scissors and Intersectoral Resource Transfers: Who Paid for Industrialization in China? 0 1 2 94 5 8 12 383
Primary Education as an Input into Post-primary Education: A Neglected Benefit 0 0 0 4 0 0 3 850
Production Externalities of Education: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia 0 0 0 0 3 3 8 317
Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth 1 1 1 238 4 5 6 742
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 1 123 3 6 14 584
Reform, Growth, and Inequality in China* 0 1 2 90 2 5 8 204
Rural-Urban Income Comparisons and Migration in Ghana 0 0 0 3 3 4 6 633
Segmentation or competition in China's urban labour market? 0 0 1 30 5 7 13 101
Seniority Payments, Quit Rates, and Internal Labour Markets in Britain and Japan 0 0 0 0 2 3 5 123
Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China 0 0 0 29 0 7 10 111
Subjective well-being and its determinants in rural China 1 2 4 233 9 12 23 776
Subjective well-being poverty vs. Income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 146 6 9 16 476
The Determinants of Urban Income Inequality in China 0 0 0 1 1 2 4 1,564
The Determination of the General Wage Level: Comment 0 0 0 12 1 2 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 3 4 8 258
The Nature of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 115 1 1 3 555
The Puzzle of Falling Happiness despite Rising Income in Rural China: Eleven Hypotheses 0 0 1 22 3 3 6 60
The Returns to Education: Increasing with Experience or Decreasing with Expansion? 0 0 0 0 2 4 7 261
The Role of Occupation in the Determination of Wages 0 0 0 53 2 6 8 138
The Role of the Firm in Wage Determination: An African Case Study 0 0 0 16 2 3 3 67
The Rural-Urban Divide in China: Income but Not Happiness? 2 2 7 156 11 17 32 456
The Societal Cost of China's Rapid Economic Growth 0 0 1 6 5 7 14 57
The Spatial Contribution to Income Inequality in Rural China 0 0 0 0 4 8 9 701
The economic causes and consequences of social instability in China 1 1 1 56 7 11 15 415
The measurement of unemployment when unemployment is high 0 0 1 226 7 8 18 716
The puzzle of migrant labour shortage and rural labour surplus in China 0 0 2 107 4 12 25 426
The rate of return on educational expansion 0 0 0 34 0 0 5 81
The role of education in facilitating risk-taking and innovation in agriculture 0 0 2 230 3 5 10 1,135
The role of social capital in the labour market in China1 0 1 2 88 2 4 9 295
Three Poverties in Urban China 0 0 0 52 3 7 7 181
Towards a Labour Market in China 0 0 0 1 3 7 15 1,095
Unemployment duration and earnings of re-employed workers in urban China 0 0 0 88 0 1 3 254
Unemployment in South Africa, 1995--2003: Causes, Problems and Policies 0 0 6 266 10 18 44 1,204
Unemployment in South Africa: The Nature of the Beast 1 5 14 509 13 25 75 2,432
Wage Determination and Labour Market Inflexibility: Introduction 0 0 0 1 3 4 5 238
Wage Structure and Labour Turnover 0 0 0 16 1 1 2 79
Wages and Employment in Developed and Underdeveloped Economies 0 0 0 41 3 5 7 247
Wages in Africa: What Should a Foreign Firm Do? 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 324
Wages, firm profitability and labor market segmentation in urban China 0 0 6 235 5 8 18 561
Why Do Girls in Rural China Have Lower School Enrollment? 0 1 2 222 7 10 15 657
Why Does China Invest So Much? 0 0 0 107 5 11 15 360
Why has China Grown So Fast? The Role of Physical and Human Capital Formation 0 0 0 0 38 80 85 247
Why has China’s Inequality of Household Wealth Risen Rapidly in the Twenty‐First Century? 0 2 7 25 3 17 34 84
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 13 36 153 8,589 392 747 1,364 41,343


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China's Remarkable Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 3 6 12 386
Economic Transformation and Income Distribution in China over Three Decades 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 6
Economic Transformation and Income Distribution in China over Three Decades 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 6
The Rural-Urban Divide: Economic Disparities and Interactions in China 0 0 0 0 1 5 20 11,622
Towards a Labour Market in China 0 0 0 0 5 9 13 1,238
Total Books 0 0 0 0 10 23 52 13,258


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China’s Labour Market: Evolution and Impediments 0 0 0 0 3 5 5 9
The Determinants of Educational Attainment in China 0 0 0 2 2 5 6 17
The Rural–Urban Divide and the Evaluation of Political Economy in China 0 0 1 19 4 7 15 74
Why Urban Wages Differ in China 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 8
Workers in China’s Rural Industries 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 10
Total Chapters 0 0 1 21 10 21 36 118


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