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A Spatial Analysis of Wages and Incomes in Urban China: Divergent Means, Convergent Inequality 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 231
A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China, and the Lewis Model 2 2 2 90 3 6 10 310
Adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations in Ethiopia: the role of Education 0 2 8 242 3 6 21 1,621
Are searching and non-searching unemployment distinct states when unemployment is high? The case of South Africa 0 0 0 47 0 0 0 151
Aspirations, Adaptation and Subjective Well-Being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 0 0 0 224 0 0 1 595
Can the Augmented Solow Model Explain China's Economic Growth? A Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis 0 0 10 1,512 2 2 23 4,167
China as a Developmental State 0 0 1 262 0 0 6 610
China's macroeconomic imbalances: causes and consequences 0 0 0 103 1 2 3 392
China, South Africa and the Lewis Model 1 2 3 161 2 4 5 473
China, South Africa, and the Lewis Model 0 0 0 88 0 1 2 346
China’s Increasing Inequality of Wealth: Piketty with Chinese Characteristics? 0 0 0 29 0 0 3 62
China’s Expansion of Higher Education: the Labour Market Consequences of a Supply Shock 0 0 1 211 0 2 11 320
China’s Inequality is Important – but which Inequality? 0 0 0 69 0 1 4 116
Chinese Peasant Choices: Farming, Rural Industry or Migration 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 741
Chinese Rural Migrants in Urban Enterprises: Three Perspectives 0 0 0 2 0 1 9 777
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 9 0 1 1 126
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 9 132
Cumulative Causation and Inequality Among Villages in China 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 317
Divergent Means and Convergent Inequality of Incomes among the Provinces and Cities of Urban China 0 0 0 15 0 0 2 109
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 15 0 0 1 114
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 19 0 1 2 142
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 29 0 1 3 146
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 11 0 0 2 121
Economic Growth, Economic Reform anf Rising Inequality in China 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 418
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China 0 1 1 101 0 1 2 248
Education externalities in rural Ethiopia: evidence from average and stochastic frontier production functions 0 0 1 50 0 1 2 233
Educational Inequality in China: The Intergenerational Dimension 0 0 1 258 0 2 7 636
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 0 326 0 0 2 920
How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa? 0 0 1 14 0 0 1 51
Income Inequality and Happiness: Which Inequalities Matter n China? 1 1 1 72 2 2 4 77
Income Inequality in Rural China: Communities, Households and Resources Mobility 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 90
Income inequality and happiness: perceived or actual, widely or narrowly defined, fair or unfair, self- or community-centred inequality? 0 1 1 74 0 2 5 129
Income, Aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a Poor Society 1 1 2 189 3 3 6 720
Increasing Wage Inequality in China: Efficiency Versus Equity? 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 425
Inequality in China: an overview 0 1 2 214 1 2 4 409
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 1 28 0 0 1 255
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 1 92 0 1 4 274
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 1 78 0 2 5 515
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 2 148 0 1 3 462
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 23 0 0 1 154
Is Happiness Infectious? 0 0 1 234 1 1 4 646
LEWIS THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS: PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYMENT, RENT-SEEKING AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 526
Labour market policies and outcomes in Zimbabwe 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 59
Lewis through a looking glass: public sector employment, rent-seeking, and economic growth 0 0 0 74 1 2 3 275
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 2 106 1 1 6 174
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 11 0 0 3 107
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 18 0 1 2 127
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 19 0 1 3 154
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 53 0 0 1 156
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 77 0 0 2 202
Price Scissors and Intersectoral Resource Transfers: Who Paid Industrialization in China? 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 98
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 1 472 2 5 11 2,015
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 1 37 0 1 2 195
Subjective Well-being Poverty versus Income Poverty and Capabilities Poverty? 0 0 1 28 0 0 5 125
Subjective Well-being and Social Evaluation in a Poor Country 0 0 2 98 0 0 3 188
Subjective Well-being and its Determinants in Rural China 0 0 0 573 1 3 9 1,453
Subjective well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 8 0 0 2 46
THE DETERMINANTS OF URBAN INCOME INEQUALITY IN CHINA 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 703
THE SPATIAL CONTRIBUTION TO INCOME INEQUALITY IN RURAL CHINA 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 663
The Curious Case of Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China 0 0 0 27 0 0 1 109
The Determinants of Educational Attainment in China 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 711
The Economic Causes and Consequences of Social Instability in China 0 0 0 286 4 4 8 7,054
The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition 0 0 0 132 0 1 2 478
The Evolution of the Migrant Labor Market in China, 2002-2007 0 0 0 181 0 0 0 158
The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in China, 2002-2013 0 0 3 162 1 3 19 685
The Length of Life and the Standard of Living: Economic Influences on Premature Death in China 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 121
The Puzzle of Migrant Labour Shortage and Rural Labour Surplus in China 0 0 4 792 0 1 9 1,617
The Quality of Society and Happiness: Fairness, Trust, and Community in China 0 0 3 14 2 3 11 26
The Role of Social Capital in the Labour Market in China 0 0 0 329 0 2 12 976
The coming economic, social, and political apocalypse? 0 0 1 7 1 3 6 29
The direct and indirect economic consequences of climate damage in poor countries 1 1 1 16 1 2 4 15
The economics of Communist Party membership - The Curious case of rising numbers and wage premium during China’s transition 0 0 0 59 0 1 2 384
The puzzle of falling happiness despite rising income in rural China: ten hypotheses 0 0 1 52 1 3 6 118
The receding housing ladder: house price inflation, parental support, and the changing intergenerational distribution of housing in China 0 0 0 23 0 1 3 40
Unemployment and wages in South Africa: A spatial approach 0 0 0 37 0 1 1 136
Unemployment in South Africa, 1995-2003: Causes, Problems and Policies 0 0 0 31 2 2 16 107
Unemployment in South Africa: The nature of the beast 0 0 0 46 0 0 6 266
Unemployment in South Africa: the nature of the beast 0 1 2 799 0 1 4 4,654
Urban Insiders versus Rural Outsiders: Complementarity or Competition in China`s Urban Labour Market? 0 0 0 140 1 1 4 587
Well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 37 0 2 7 158
Well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 585 0 2 11 2,134
Why does China invest so much? 0 0 0 336 1 1 4 820
Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change 0 0 1 269 1 1 10 1,053
Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change 0 0 0 149 0 1 3 850
Total Working Papers 6 13 64 11,321 42 107 396 50,149


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A Simulation Alternative to the Comparative R2 Approach to Decomposing Inequality 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 76
A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China and the Lewis Model 0 0 0 8 0 0 4 37
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 2 4 11 730
Black Wages and Choice of Techniques in South Africa 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 67
Can the augmented Solow model explain China's remarkable economic growth? A cross-country panel data analysis 0 1 22 487 2 6 47 1,320
Caste discrimination in the Indian urban labour market 2 4 10 619 5 11 35 1,447
Causes et conséquences des réductions d'effectifs dans les entreprises publiques en Chine 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 116
China as a Developmental State 2 3 6 54 3 6 18 198
China's growing but slowing inequality of household wealth, 2013–2018: A challenge to ‘common prosperity’? 0 0 0 9 0 2 6 29
China’s Macroeconomic Imbalances: Causes and Consequences 0 0 1 57 0 1 2 308
China’s evolving inequality 1 1 1 18 2 2 3 50
China’s expansion of higher education: The labour market consequences of a supply shock 0 0 1 34 1 7 22 168
Chinese Peasant Choices: Migration, Rural Industry or Farming 0 0 0 85 0 0 1 260
Chinese rural migrants in urban enterprises: Three perspectives 0 1 4 75 0 3 11 302
Community, comparisons and subjective well-being in a divided society 0 1 3 165 0 3 7 490
Contrasting paradigms: segmentation and competitiveness in the formation of the chinese labour market 0 0 0 161 0 3 7 619
Cumulative causation and inequality among villages in China 0 0 0 30 0 0 0 151
Devaluation and Income Distribution in Less-Developed Economies 0 1 2 60 0 1 2 183
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 3 1 1 5 45
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? 0 1 2 80 0 2 13 321
Earnings, Schooling, Ability, and Cognitive Skills 0 0 3 438 0 0 4 973
Economic Causes and Cures of Social Instability in China 0 0 0 7 1 1 2 69
Economic Growth in China: Productivity and Policy 0 0 0 20 1 1 2 74
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 0 0 54 0 0 2 327
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China: Setting the Trap 0 0 0 66 1 2 3 207
Educational Attainment and the Rural--Urban Divide in China 0 0 0 1 0 3 12 1,447
Educational Expansion and the Kuznets Effect 1 2 9 399 2 7 23 1,039
Educational Policy and Labour Productivity: An Output Accounting Exercise 0 0 0 68 0 0 0 327
Educational expansion, government policy and wage compression 0 0 0 33 0 0 0 96
Employment Constraints and Sub-optimality in Chinese Enterprises 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 254
Explaining Income Distribution in Less Developed Countries: A Framework and an Agenda 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 218
Externality Effects of Education: Dynamics of the Adoption and Diffusion of an Innovation in Rural Ethiopia 1 1 1 37 2 2 5 584
Fair and unfair inequality in China 0 1 3 5 0 2 4 19
Fiscal decentralization: Incentives, redistribution and reform in China 0 0 0 67 0 0 1 253
From Migrants to Proletarians: Employment Experience, Mobility and Wages in Tanzania 0 0 0 0 1 2 2 131
Great Expectations? The Subjective Well-being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 0 0 6 236 1 4 22 852
Has Capitalism Underdeveloped the Labour Reserves of South Africa? 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 131
How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa? 0 0 0 53 0 0 0 254
How High is Urban Unemployment in China? 0 0 3 424 0 1 6 1,856
Income inequality and happiness: Which inequalities matter in China? 1 1 6 18 3 6 19 80
Income, aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a poor society 0 1 3 64 0 1 5 252
Increasing urban wage inequality in China 0 0 0 251 0 1 1 823
Inequality in China: An Overview 0 1 2 26 1 2 5 105
Investment and financing constraints in China: Does working capital management make a difference? 1 1 2 99 1 7 22 406
Is Happiness Infectious? 0 0 0 5 0 0 3 51
Is the Rate of Return on Primary Schooling Really 26 Per Cent? 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 267
Job Competition, Occupational Productions, and Filtering Down 0 0 2 35 0 1 24 202
Job mobility of residents and migrants in urban China 0 1 2 111 1 3 6 334
Labor retrenchment in China: Determinants and consequences 0 1 4 243 0 2 7 853
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 1 2 2 0 2 4 14
Negative Investment in China: Financing Constraints and Restructuring versus Growth 0 0 0 5 0 1 9 46
On the Determination of the General Wage Level: A Rejoinder 0 0 0 10 0 1 1 65
Price Scissors and Intersectoral Resource Transfers: Who Paid for Industrialization in China? 0 0 0 92 1 2 4 372
Primary Education as an Input into Post-primary Education: A Neglected Benefit 0 0 0 4 0 1 5 847
Production Externalities of Education: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 309
Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth 0 0 1 237 1 5 8 737
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 122 2 2 6 572
Reform, Growth, and Inequality in China* 0 0 0 88 0 1 1 196
Rural-Urban Income Comparisons and Migration in Ghana 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 628
Segmentation or competition in China's urban labour market? 0 0 0 29 0 0 0 88
Seniority Payments, Quit Rates, and Internal Labour Markets in Britain and Japan 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 118
Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China 0 1 1 29 0 2 2 101
Subjective well-being and its determinants in rural China 0 1 6 229 0 1 19 753
Subjective well-being poverty vs. Income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 1 146 0 8 12 460
The Determinants of Urban Income Inequality in China 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1,560
The Determination of the General Wage Level: Comment 0 0 1 12 0 0 1 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 1 250
The Nature of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 1 115 0 0 1 552
The Puzzle of Falling Happiness despite Rising Income in Rural China: Eleven Hypotheses 0 0 1 21 0 0 4 54
The Returns to Education: Increasing with Experience or Decreasing with Expansion? 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 254
The Role of Occupation in the Determination of Wages 0 0 1 53 0 0 5 130
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 9 149 0 3 24 424
The Societal Cost of China's Rapid Economic Growth 0 0 1 5 1 1 3 44
The Spatial Contribution to Income Inequality in Rural China 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 692
The economic causes and consequences of social instability in China 0 1 3 55 0 2 15 400
The measurement of unemployment when unemployment is high 0 0 4 225 1 1 6 699
The puzzle of migrant labour shortage and rural labour surplus in China 0 0 2 105 2 4 8 403
The rate of return on educational expansion 0 0 0 34 0 0 0 76
The role of education in facilitating risk-taking and innovation in agriculture 1 1 4 229 1 2 11 1,126
The role of social capital in the labour market in China1 0 0 0 86 0 0 2 286
Three Poverties in Urban China 0 0 1 52 0 1 3 174
Towards a Labour Market in China 0 0 0 1 2 3 4 1,082
Unemployment duration and earnings of re-employed workers in urban China 0 0 0 88 0 0 2 251
Unemployment in South Africa, 1995--2003: Causes, Problems and Policies 1 1 10 261 2 4 43 1,162
Unemployment in South Africa: The Nature of the Beast 0 0 13 495 0 5 80 2,357
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 1 77
Wages and Employment in Developed and Underdeveloped Economies 0 0 0 41 1 1 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 4 229 0 0 10 543
Why Do Girls in Rural China Have Lower School Enrollment? 0 0 0 220 1 2 7 643
Why Does China Invest So Much? 0 0 1 107 0 0 3 345
Why has China Grown So Fast? The Role of Physical and Human Capital Formation 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 162
Why has China’s Inequality of Household Wealth Risen Rapidly in the Twenty‐First Century? 0 1 4 18 3 5 13 53
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 0 0 81
Total Journal Articles 11 32 169 8,447 50 168 713 40,029


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China's Remarkable Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 1 1 10 375
Economic Transformation and Income Distribution in China over Three Decades 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 3
Economic Transformation and Income Distribution in China over Three Decades 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
The Rural-Urban Divide: Economic Disparities and Interactions in China 0 0 0 0 0 4 19 11,602
Towards a Labour Market in China 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 1,226
Total Books 0 0 0 0 3 9 34 13,209


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China’s Labour Market: Evolution and Impediments 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 4
The Determinants of Educational Attainment in China 0 1 1 2 1 2 2 12
The Rural–Urban Divide and the Evaluation of Political Economy in China 0 0 1 18 2 2 6 61
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 0 1 5
Total Chapters 0 1 2 20 3 5 11 85


Statistics updated 2025-03-03