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A Spatial Analysis of Wages and Incomes in Urban China: Divergent Means, Convergent Inequality 0 0 0 1 1 1 7 238
A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China, and the Lewis Model 1 1 9 99 7 11 39 350
Adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations in Ethiopia: the role of Education 0 0 3 245 3 6 28 1,653
Are searching and non-searching unemployment distinct states when unemployment is high? The case of South Africa 0 0 1 48 3 5 17 168
Aspirations, Adaptation and Subjective Well-Being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 0 0 1 226 11 19 31 627
Can the Augmented Solow Model Explain China's Economic Growth? A Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis 0 1 5 1,518 9 13 37 4,207
China as a Developmental State 0 0 3 265 9 15 27 637
China's macroeconomic imbalances: causes and consequences 0 0 0 103 1 4 19 411
China, South Africa and the Lewis Model 0 0 0 161 3 3 6 479
China, South Africa, and the Lewis Model 0 0 0 88 1 4 11 360
China’s Increasing Inequality of Wealth: Piketty with Chinese Characteristics? 0 0 1 30 1 2 12 74
China’s Expansion of Higher Education: the Labour Market Consequences of a Supply Shock 0 1 4 215 7 15 29 349
China’s Inequality is Important – but which Inequality? 0 0 0 69 0 2 7 123
Chinese Peasant Choices: Farming, Rural Industry or Migration 0 0 0 0 3 4 11 752
Chinese Rural Migrants in Urban Enterprises: Three Perspectives 0 0 0 2 3 5 9 786
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 119 1 1 6 577
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 20 6 12 19 151
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 9 1 1 10 136
Cumulative Causation and Inequality Among Villages in China 0 0 0 0 3 3 10 327
Divergent Means and Convergent Inequality of Incomes among the Provinces and Cities of Urban China 0 0 1 16 2 3 12 121
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 19 0 2 21 163
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 11 2 3 10 131
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 29 5 10 30 176
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 15 3 3 8 122
Economic Growth, Economic Reform anf Rising Inequality in China 0 0 0 0 2 5 10 428
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China 0 0 0 101 2 3 6 254
Education externalities in rural Ethiopia: evidence from average and stochastic frontier production functions 0 0 1 51 5 6 16 249
Educational Inequality in China: The Intergenerational Dimension 0 0 1 259 0 6 19 655
Fiscal Decentralisation, Redistribution and Reform in China 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 116
Great Expectations? The Subjective Well-Being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 0 0 1 327 6 9 22 942
How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa? 0 0 1 15 4 9 16 67
Income Inequality and Happiness: Which Inequalities Matter n China? 0 0 0 72 3 5 13 91
Income Inequality in Rural China: Communities, Households and Resources Mobility 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 93
Income inequality and happiness: perceived or actual, widely or narrowly defined, fair or unfair, self- or community-centred inequality? 0 0 1 75 6 10 19 148
Income, Aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a Poor Society 1 1 3 192 4 5 28 749
Increasing Wage Inequality in China: Efficiency Versus Equity? 0 0 0 1 1 3 7 432
Inequality in China: an overview 0 0 0 214 4 5 15 425
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 149 7 7 23 486
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 78 17 27 40 555
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 23 0 2 9 163
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 28 0 3 21 276
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 92 1 2 22 297
Is Happiness Infectious? 0 0 0 234 2 3 8 655
LEWIS THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS: PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYMENT, RENT-SEEKING AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 0 1 2 18 544
Labour market policies and outcomes in Zimbabwe 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 63
Lewis through a looking glass: public sector employment, rent-seeking, and economic growth 0 0 0 74 3 7 31 306
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 1 4 10 190
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 18 2 4 9 136
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 53 0 4 10 166
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 11 1 3 9 116
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 77 2 3 14 216
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 1 20 2 6 17 171
New integrated concepts and measures of income poverty and of 'common prosperity' in China 0 0 0 8 0 3 19 30
Price Scissors and Intersectoral Resource Transfers: Who Paid Industrialization in China? 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 102
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 37 3 5 12 208
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 472 4 6 32 2,050
Subjective Well-being Poverty versus Income Poverty and Capabilities Poverty? 0 1 2 30 5 9 18 143
Subjective Well-being and Social Evaluation in a Poor Country 0 0 0 98 6 10 17 206
Subjective Well-being and its Determinants in Rural China 0 0 0 573 8 15 36 1,490
Subjective well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 8 1 2 10 56
THE DETERMINANTS OF URBAN INCOME INEQUALITY IN CHINA 0 0 0 0 1 3 17 720
THE SPATIAL CONTRIBUTION TO INCOME INEQUALITY IN RURAL CHINA 0 0 0 3 2 2 12 675
The Curious Case of Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China 0 0 0 27 6 11 19 128
The Determinants of Educational Attainment in China 0 0 0 0 4 5 13 724
The Economic Causes and Consequences of Social Instability in China 0 0 0 286 2 10 17 7,072
The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition 0 0 0 132 3 4 11 489
The Evolution of the Migrant Labor Market in China, 2002-2007 0 0 0 181 1 1 6 164
The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in China, 2002-2013 1 1 6 172 5 11 32 722
The Length of Life and the Standard of Living: Economic Influences on Premature Death in China 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 126
The Principal-Agent Problem, Economic Growth, Subjective Wellbeing and Social Instability: China 0 0 0 74 1 2 7 337
The Puzzle of Migrant Labour Shortage and Rural Labour Surplus in China 0 0 1 793 6 10 20 1,638
The Quality of Society and Happiness: Fairness, Trust, and Community in China 1 2 2 16 6 9 24 51
The Role of Social Capital in the Labour Market in China 0 1 2 331 3 9 24 1,000
The coming economic, social, and political apocalypse? 0 0 0 7 0 2 9 38
The direct and indirect economic consequences of climate damage in poor countries 0 0 0 18 2 4 14 31
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 11 395
The puzzle of falling happiness despite rising income in rural China: ten hypotheses 0 0 2 54 2 3 10 129
The receding housing ladder: house price inflation, parental support, and the changing intergenerational distribution of housing in China 0 0 0 23 3 4 21 62
Unemployment and wages in South Africa: A spatial approach 1 1 1 38 7 9 20 157
Unemployment in South Africa, 1995-2003: Causes, Problems and Policies 0 0 0 31 6 9 20 132
Unemployment in South Africa: The nature of the beast 0 0 0 46 0 2 13 279
Unemployment in South Africa: the nature of the beast 0 0 1 801 0 3 17 4,673
Urban Insiders versus Rural Outsiders: Complementarity or Competition in China`s Urban Labour Market? 0 0 0 140 3 6 16 603
Well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 37 2 4 7 165
Well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 1 586 2 3 20 2,154
Why does China invest so much? 0 0 1 337 1 3 13 833
Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change 0 0 0 149 4 6 21 871
Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change 0 0 1 270 5 6 31 1,086
Total Working Papers 5 10 57 11,470 270 488 1,438 51,981


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A Simulation Alternative to the Comparative R2 Approach to Decomposing Inequality 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 80
A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China and the Lewis Model 0 2 4 13 4 9 23 62
Addendum: Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 3 3 6 162
An Analysis of Racial Wage Discrimination in South Africa 0 0 0 0 2 5 13 744
Black Wages and Choice of Techniques in South Africa 0 0 0 0 2 2 6 73
Can the augmented Solow model explain China's remarkable economic growth? A cross-country panel data analysis 0 2 16 509 8 14 68 1,397
Caste discrimination in the Indian urban labour market 2 3 15 635 7 10 41 1,491
Causes et conséquences des réductions d'effectifs dans les entreprises publiques en Chine 0 0 0 4 2 3 12 128
China as a Developmental State 0 2 6 60 12 23 42 244
China's growing but slowing inequality of household wealth, 2013–2018: A challenge to ‘common prosperity’? 0 0 5 15 3 4 17 52
China’s Macroeconomic Imbalances: Causes and Consequences 0 0 0 57 2 4 8 316
China’s evolving inequality 0 0 0 18 1 5 11 62
China’s expansion of higher education: The labour market consequences of a supply shock 1 1 6 40 4 10 55 227
Chinese Peasant Choices: Migration, Rural Industry or Farming 0 0 0 85 1 4 8 268
Chinese rural migrants in urban enterprises: Three perspectives 0 0 0 76 3 3 13 316
Community, comparisons and subjective well-being in a divided society 0 0 1 166 2 4 15 505
Contrasting paradigms: segmentation and competitiveness in the formation of the chinese labour market 0 0 1 163 4 6 24 647
Cumulative causation and inequality among villages in China 0 0 0 30 5 7 19 170
Devaluation and Income Distribution in Less-Developed Economies 0 0 0 60 3 3 6 189
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 3 2 4 20 66
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? 0 0 2 83 2 5 21 344
Earnings, Schooling, Ability, and Cognitive Skills 0 0 0 438 2 3 22 996
Economic Causes and Cures of Social Instability in China 0 0 0 7 0 1 7 76
Economic Growth in China: Productivity and Policy 0 0 0 20 1 3 5 80
Economic Policies for a Harmonious Society: A Symposium: Editorial Introduction 0 0 0 10 2 3 7 37
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China: Closing the Trap 0 0 2 56 2 4 15 343
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China: Setting the Trap 0 0 1 67 2 2 17 224
Educational Attainment and the Rural--Urban Divide in China 0 0 0 1 1 3 16 1,468
Educational Expansion and the Kuznets Effect 1 1 2 401 4 8 22 1,062
Educational Policy and Labour Productivity: An Output Accounting Exercise 0 0 0 68 2 2 5 332
Educational expansion, government policy and wage compression 0 0 1 34 5 5 11 107
Employment Constraints and Sub-optimality in Chinese Enterprises 0 0 0 0 4 4 7 261
Explaining Income Distribution in Less Developed Countries: A Framework and an Agenda 0 0 0 1 3 8 18 237
Externality Effects of Education: Dynamics of the Adoption and Diffusion of an Innovation in Rural Ethiopia 0 0 2 39 1 3 18 603
Fair and unfair inequality in China 0 0 0 5 5 6 13 32
Fiscal decentralization: Incentives, redistribution and reform in China 0 0 0 67 3 7 16 270
From Migrants to Proletarians: Employment Experience, Mobility and Wages in Tanzania 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 133
Great Expectations? The Subjective Well-being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 0 1 4 242 7 14 40 899
Has Capitalism Underdeveloped the Labour Reserves of South Africa? 0 0 0 0 1 1 10 142
How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa? 0 0 2 55 2 4 20 274
How High is Urban Unemployment in China? 0 0 1 425 5 10 27 1,884
Income inequality and happiness: Which inequalities matter in China? 0 0 1 20 4 7 21 102
Income, aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a poor society 0 2 4 68 6 14 23 276
Increasing urban wage inequality in China 1 1 3 254 3 6 19 842
Inequality in China: An Overview 0 0 0 26 0 3 12 117
Investment and financing constraints in China: Does working capital management make a difference? 1 2 2 101 13 19 42 451
Is Happiness Infectious? 0 0 1 6 1 2 9 60
Is the Rate of Return on Primary Schooling Really 26 Per Cent? 0 0 0 0 2 6 8 277
Job Competition, Occupational Productions, and Filtering Down 0 0 0 35 0 1 9 211
Job mobility of residents and migrants in urban China 0 0 0 111 3 5 15 349
Labor retrenchment in China: Determinants and consequences 0 0 0 244 4 4 11 866
Labour Allocation and Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 149
Labour Market Issues in Zimbabwe: Lessons for South Africa 0 0 0 41 1 2 6 176
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 4 5 15 61
On the Determination of the General Wage Level: A Rejoinder 0 0 0 10 0 1 1 66
Price Scissors and Intersectoral Resource Transfers: Who Paid for Industrialization in China? 0 0 1 94 3 9 19 392
Primary Education as an Input into Post-primary Education: A Neglected Benefit 0 0 0 4 0 4 7 854
Production Externalities of Education: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia 0 0 0 0 1 3 9 320
Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth 0 0 1 238 2 3 8 745
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 123 4 5 16 589
Reform, Growth, and Inequality in China* 0 1 2 91 2 5 12 209
Rural-Urban Income Comparisons and Migration in Ghana 0 0 0 3 1 1 6 634
Segmentation or competition in China's urban labour market? 0 0 0 30 2 3 14 104
Seniority Payments, Quit Rates, and Internal Labour Markets in Britain and Japan 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 124
Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China 0 0 0 29 3 5 14 116
Subjective well-being and its determinants in rural China 2 2 6 235 2 7 30 783
Subjective well-being poverty vs. Income poverty and capabilities poverty? 2 4 4 150 5 13 29 489
The Determinants of Urban Income Inequality in China 0 0 0 1 1 2 6 1,566
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 2 2 10 260
The Nature of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 115 1 1 4 556
The Puzzle of Falling Happiness despite Rising Income in Rural China: Eleven Hypotheses 0 1 2 23 3 7 12 67
The Quality of Society and Happiness: Fairness, Trust, and Community in China 0 1 2 2 3 7 14 17
The Returns to Education: Increasing with Experience or Decreasing with Expansion? 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 261
The Role of Occupation in the Determination of Wages 0 0 0 53 0 2 10 140
The Role of the Firm in Wage Determination: An African Case Study 0 0 0 16 0 0 3 67
The Rural-Urban Divide in China: Income but Not Happiness? 1 2 7 158 11 21 49 477
The Societal Cost of China's Rapid Economic Growth 0 0 1 6 0 4 16 61
The Spatial Contribution to Income Inequality in Rural China 0 0 0 0 1 3 12 704
The direct and indirect economic consequences of climate damage in poor countries 0 0 1 1 2 3 12 12
The economic causes and consequences of social instability in China 0 0 1 56 2 3 17 418
The measurement of unemployment when unemployment is high 0 0 1 226 0 0 15 716
The puzzle of migrant labour shortage and rural labour surplus in China 0 0 2 107 1 2 23 428
The rate of return on educational expansion 0 0 0 34 1 3 8 84
The role of education in facilitating risk-taking and innovation in agriculture 1 1 2 231 4 6 14 1,141
The role of social capital in the labour market in China1 0 1 3 89 3 6 13 301
Three Poverties in Urban China 0 0 0 52 4 5 12 186
Towards a Labour Market in China 0 0 0 1 1 5 16 1,100
Unemployment duration and earnings of re-employed workers in urban China 0 1 1 89 3 4 7 258
Unemployment in South Africa, 1995--2003: Causes, Problems and Policies 0 1 4 267 7 12 44 1,216
Unemployment in South Africa: The Nature of the Beast 0 1 12 510 5 17 75 2,449
Wage Determination and Labour Market Inflexibility: Introduction 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 238
Wage Structure and Labour Turnover 0 0 0 16 3 6 8 85
Wages and Employment in Developed and Underdeveloped Economies 0 0 0 41 2 2 8 249
Wages in Africa: What Should a Foreign Firm Do? 0 0 0 1 0 2 4 326
Wages, firm profitability and labor market segmentation in urban China 0 0 3 235 1 2 17 563
Why Do Girls in Rural China Have Lower School Enrollment? 0 0 1 222 3 3 15 660
Why Does China Invest So Much? 0 0 0 107 1 2 14 362
Why has China Grown So Fast? The Role of Physical and Human Capital Formation 0 0 0 0 1 4 89 251
Why has China’s Inequality of Household Wealth Risen Rapidly in the Twenty‐First Century? 1 2 9 27 4 9 36 93
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 5 86
Total Journal Articles 13 35 148 8,626 265 502 1,700 41,864


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China's Remarkable Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 3 8 18 394
Economic Transformation and Income Distribution in China over Three Decades 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 7
Economic Transformation and Income Distribution in China over Three Decades 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 7
The Rural-Urban Divide: Economic Disparities and Interactions in China 0 0 0 0 2 9 27 11,631
Towards a Labour Market in China 0 0 0 0 1 3 13 1,241
Total Books 0 0 0 0 6 22 66 13,280


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China’s Labour Market: Evolution and Impediments 0 0 0 0 1 2 7 11
The Determinants of Educational Attainment in China 0 0 0 2 1 2 7 19
The Rural–Urban Divide and the Evaluation of Political Economy in China 0 0 1 19 1 1 14 75
Why Urban Wages Differ in China 0 0 0 0 3 3 8 11
Workers in China’s Rural Industries 0 0 0 0 2 5 10 15
Total Chapters 0 0 1 21 8 13 46 131


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