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A Spatial Analysis of Wages and Incomes in Urban China: Divergent Means, Convergent Inequality 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 230
A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China, and the Lewis Model 0 0 3 83 0 2 16 287
Adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations in Ethiopia: the role of Education 0 0 9 229 0 2 41 1,577
Are searching and non-searching unemployment distinct states when unemployment is high? The case of South Africa 0 1 3 45 0 1 5 147
Aspirations, Adaptation and Subjective Well-Being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 1 2 3 224 4 6 9 590
Can the Augmented Solow Model Explain China's Economic Growth? A Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis 2 4 9 1,495 2 6 16 4,123
China as a Developmental State 0 1 3 257 2 5 12 596
China's macroeconomic imbalances: causes and consequences 0 0 1 102 0 0 9 385
China, South Africa and the Lewis Model 0 0 0 155 0 0 2 464
China, South Africa, and the Lewis Model 0 0 0 85 0 0 4 341
China’s Increasing Inequality of Wealth: Piketty with Chinese Characteristics? 0 0 2 28 1 5 9 55
China’s Expansion of Higher Education: the Labour Market Consequences of a Supply Shock 0 0 0 210 0 1 3 304
China’s Inequality is Important – but which Inequality? 0 0 0 69 1 1 2 112
Chinese Peasant Choices: Farming, Rural Industry or Migration 0 0 0 0 3 5 13 734
Chinese Rural Migrants in Urban Enterprises: Three Perspectives 0 0 0 2 0 0 5 759
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 119 0 0 1 571
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 20 0 0 1 115
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 9 0 0 2 124
Cumulative Causation and Inequality Among Villages in China 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 315
Divergent Means and Convergent Inequality of Incomes among the Provinces and Cities of Urban China 0 0 0 15 0 0 0 106
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 1 29 0 0 1 142
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 1 11 0 2 8 117
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 19 0 0 0 139
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 15 0 0 0 113
Economic Growth, Economic Reform anf Rising Inequality in China 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 413
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China 1 2 3 99 1 3 5 244
Education externalities in rural Ethiopia: evidence from average and stochastic frontier production functions 0 0 0 49 0 1 2 216
Educational Inequality in China: The Intergenerational Dimension 2 5 7 254 3 7 10 620
Fiscal Decentralisation, Redistribution and Reform in China 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 113
Great Expectations? The Subjective Well-Being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 1 3 6 324 2 5 16 910
How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa? 0 0 0 13 0 0 2 50
Income Inequality and Happiness: Which Inequalities Matter n China? 0 4 9 68 0 7 26 65
Income Inequality in Rural China: Communities, Households and Resources Mobility 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89
Income inequality and happiness: perceived or actual, widely or narrowly defined, fair or unfair, self- or community-centred inequality? 1 2 5 71 3 5 10 118
Income, Aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a Poor Society 0 1 2 187 0 3 10 708
Increasing Wage Inequality in China: Efficiency Versus Equity? 0 0 0 1 1 1 5 422
Inequality in China: an overview 0 1 1 211 0 1 4 401
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 1 1 2 146 1 3 6 458
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 23 0 0 3 151
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 27 0 0 0 253
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 90 0 0 4 267
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 77 0 0 5 504
Is Happiness Infectious? 0 0 0 233 0 2 5 641
LEWIS THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS: PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYMENT, RENT-SEEKING AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 525
Labour market policies and outcomes in Zimbabwe 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 57
Lewis through a looking glass: public sector employment, rent-seeking, and economic growth 0 0 0 74 1 1 3 272
Memory and Anticipation: New Empirical Support for an Old Theory of the Utility Function 0 0 0 53 0 0 1 130
Minorities in Rural China: Poorer but Inherently Happier? 0 0 0 104 1 2 5 165
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 19 0 0 1 149
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 11 3 3 4 104
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 18 0 0 1 125
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 53 0 0 1 154
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 77 0 0 1 199
Price Scissors and Intersectoral Resource Transfers: Who Paid Industrialization in China? 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 96
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 1 1 1 467 4 7 25 1,982
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 1 36 0 1 5 189
Subjective Well-being Poverty versus Income Poverty and Capabilities Poverty? 0 0 0 27 0 0 4 119
Subjective Well-being and Social Evaluation in a Poor Country 0 0 2 96 0 0 5 184
Subjective Well-being and its Determinants in Rural China 0 0 0 573 3 7 20 1,434
Subjective well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 43
THE DETERMINANTS OF URBAN INCOME INEQUALITY IN CHINA 0 0 0 0 1 4 15 693
THE SPATIAL CONTRIBUTION TO INCOME INEQUALITY IN RURAL CHINA 0 0 0 3 0 2 7 661
The Curious Case of Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China 0 0 0 27 0 1 1 108
The Determinants of Educational Attainment in China 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 703
The Economic Causes and Consequences of Social Instability in China 1 1 3 284 1 5 19 7,037
The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition 1 2 4 131 1 3 8 473
The Evolution of the Migrant Labor Market in China, 2002-2007 0 0 0 181 0 0 0 155
The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in China, 2002-2013 0 0 10 154 9 19 81 627
The Length of Life and the Standard of Living: Economic Influences on Premature Death in China 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 118
The Puzzle of Migrant Labour Shortage and Rural Labour Surplus in China 0 0 0 787 0 1 6 1,599
The Role of Social Capital in the Labour Market in China 0 0 2 328 0 4 14 954
The coming economic, social, and political apocalypse? 0 1 6 6 0 2 13 13
The economics of Communist Party membership - The Curious case of rising numbers and wage premium during China’s transition 0 0 0 59 1 2 2 382
The puzzle of falling happiness despite rising income in rural China: ten hypotheses 2 5 7 48 5 11 22 105
The receding housing ladder: house price inflation, parental support, and the changing intergenerational distribution of housing in China 0 0 5 23 0 1 13 37
Unemployment and wages in South Africa: A spatial approach 0 0 1 37 0 0 2 133
Unemployment in South Africa, 1995-2003: Causes, Problems and Policies 0 0 0 31 1 4 10 82
Unemployment in South Africa: The nature of the beast 1 2 3 46 2 3 9 254
Unemployment in South Africa: the nature of the beast 1 1 5 794 1 4 25 4,636
Urban Insiders versus Rural Outsiders: Complementarity or Competition in China`s Urban Labour Market? 0 0 1 139 0 1 5 582
Well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 36 0 1 2 150
Well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 584 0 3 24 2,117
Why does China invest so much? 0 0 0 335 0 0 4 807
Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change 1 3 7 267 3 7 20 1,034
Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change 2 2 2 149 4 7 12 843
Total Working Papers 19 45 130 11,161 65 186 682 49,319


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A Simulation Alternative to the Comparative R2 Approach to Decomposing Inequality 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 71
A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China and the Lewis Model 0 0 1 7 1 2 7 26
Addendum: Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 153
An Analysis of Racial Wage Discrimination in South Africa 0 0 0 0 2 3 17 706
Black Wages and Choice of Techniques in South Africa 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 64
Can the augmented Solow model explain China's remarkable economic growth? A cross-country panel data analysis 4 5 32 443 4 9 70 1,223
Caste discrimination in the Indian urban labour market 4 7 17 599 11 21 55 1,388
Causes et conséquences des réductions d'effectifs dans les entreprises publiques en Chine 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 115
China as a Developmental State 0 2 7 42 2 13 30 158
China’s Macroeconomic Imbalances: Causes and Consequences 0 0 0 55 2 2 9 303
China’s evolving inequality 0 0 0 15 0 0 2 45
China’s expansion of higher education: The labour market consequences of a supply shock 0 0 2 29 0 3 12 132
Chinese Peasant Choices: Migration, Rural Industry or Farming 0 0 2 84 0 1 3 258
Chinese rural migrants in urban enterprises: Three perspectives 0 0 4 70 0 1 12 280
Community, comparisons and subjective well-being in a divided society 0 0 3 160 1 3 9 478
Contrasting paradigms: segmentation and competitiveness in the formation of the chinese labour market 0 0 2 161 0 0 3 607
Cumulative causation and inequality among villages in China 0 0 0 30 0 1 1 150
Devaluation and Income Distribution in Less-Developed Economies 0 0 0 56 0 0 0 179
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 32
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? 0 0 4 78 0 0 11 304
Earnings, Schooling, Ability, and Cognitive Skills 0 1 7 434 0 1 12 959
Economic Causes and Cures of Social Instability in China 0 0 1 7 0 3 13 65
Economic Growth in China: Productivity and Policy 0 0 0 20 0 0 1 71
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 1 1 54 0 1 3 322
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China: Setting the Trap 0 1 1 66 0 3 4 201
Educational Attainment and the Rural--Urban Divide in China 0 0 0 1 1 4 19 1,415
Educational Expansion and the Kuznets Effect 1 5 11 384 6 15 40 985
Educational Policy and Labour Productivity: An Output Accounting Exercise 0 0 0 68 0 0 1 326
Educational expansion, government policy and wage compression 0 0 0 32 0 0 1 95
Employment Constraints and Sub-optimality in Chinese Enterprises 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 253
Explaining Income Distribution in Less Developed Countries: A Framework and an Agenda 0 0 0 1 1 1 3 216
Externality Effects of Education: Dynamics of the Adoption and Diffusion of an Innovation in Rural Ethiopia 0 0 3 32 0 0 10 570
Fair and unfair inequality in China 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 14
Fiscal decentralization: Incentives, redistribution and reform in China 0 0 3 67 0 0 5 250
From Migrants to Proletarians: Employment Experience, Mobility and Wages in Tanzania 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 129
Great Expectations? The Subjective Well-being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 2 5 14 219 7 16 41 800
Has Capitalism Underdeveloped the Labour Reserves of South Africa? 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 131
How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa? 0 0 0 53 0 0 1 254
How High is Urban Unemployment in China? 1 1 2 420 1 3 5 1,847
Income inequality and happiness: Which inequalities matter in China? 0 0 9 9 1 9 38 41
Income, aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a poor society 0 0 0 61 0 1 6 246
Increasing urban wage inequality in China 0 0 0 250 0 0 0 820
Inequality in China: An Overview 0 0 0 21 0 1 1 94
Investment and financing constraints in China: Does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 6 91 2 2 22 362
Is Happiness Infectious? 0 0 0 5 0 1 4 45
Is the Rate of Return on Primary Schooling Really 26 Per Cent? 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 263
Job Competition, Occupational Productions, and Filtering Down 0 0 0 30 0 0 1 171
Job mobility of residents and migrants in urban China 1 1 1 107 1 1 7 326
Labor retrenchment in China: Determinants and consequences 0 2 3 237 2 4 10 842
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 1 1 41 0 1 1 170
Memory and Anticipation of Income: New Empirical Support for an Old Theory of the Utility Function 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9
Negative Investment in China: Financing Constraints and Restructuring versus Growth 0 0 0 5 2 6 11 33
On the Determination of the General Wage Level: A Rejoinder 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 64
Price Scissors and Intersectoral Resource Transfers: Who Paid for Industrialization in China? 0 0 4 92 0 1 6 366
Primary Education as an Input into Post-primary Education: A Neglected Benefit 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 836
Production Externalities of Education: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 307
Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth 0 0 0 233 0 0 1 720
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 1 122 0 1 6 561
Reform, Growth, and Inequality in China* 0 0 0 88 2 2 2 194
Rural-Urban Income Comparisons and Migration in Ghana 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 626
Segmentation or competition in China's urban labour market? 0 0 0 29 0 0 0 87
Seniority Payments, Quit Rates, and Internal Labour Markets in Britain and Japan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 113
Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China 0 0 0 27 0 0 3 95
Subjective well-being and its determinants in rural China 1 2 14 218 4 7 31 711
Subjective well-being poverty vs. Income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 1 5 145 0 2 6 445
The Determinants of Urban Income Inequality in China 0 0 0 1 12 37 112 1,511
The Determination of the General Wage Level: Comment 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 78
The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China's Transition 0 0 0 47 0 0 2 248
The Nature of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 1 114 0 0 4 551
The Puzzle of Falling Happiness despite Rising Income in Rural China: Eleven Hypotheses 1 5 11 12 2 10 29 33
The Returns to Education: Increasing with Experience or Decreasing with Expansion? 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 253
The Role of Occupation in the Determination of Wages 0 1 5 51 0 3 12 123
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 1 4 138 0 5 21 391
The Societal Cost of China's Rapid Economic Growth 0 0 0 4 0 2 6 39
The Spatial Contribution to Income Inequality in Rural China 0 0 0 0 2 2 7 689
The economic causes and consequences of social instability in China 1 1 1 50 1 4 11 372
The measurement of unemployment when unemployment is high 0 3 6 215 1 18 60 668
The puzzle of migrant labour shortage and rural labour surplus in China 1 1 3 102 1 3 20 388
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 0 2 3 224 1 4 12 1,107
The role of social capital in the labour market in China1 2 2 3 85 3 3 7 281
Three Poverties in Urban China 0 0 0 51 0 0 0 171
Towards a Labour Market in China 0 0 0 1 0 2 5 1,075
Unemployment duration and earnings of re-employed workers in urban China 0 0 2 88 0 0 4 249
Unemployment in South Africa, 1995--2003: Causes, Problems and Policies 0 1 7 245 2 8 25 1,085
Unemployment in South Africa: The Nature of the Beast 2 7 16 466 18 43 120 2,185
Wage Determination and Labour Market Inflexibility: Introduction 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 232
Wage Structure and Labour Turnover 0 0 1 16 0 0 1 76
Wages and Employment in Developed and Underdeveloped Economies 0 0 0 41 0 0 3 240
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 3 217 0 0 8 521
Why Do Girls in Rural China Have Lower School Enrollment? 1 2 3 214 2 3 7 628
Why Does China Invest So Much? 0 0 1 106 0 0 1 341
Why has China Grown So Fast? The Role of Physical and Human Capital Formation 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 161
Why has China’s Inequality of Household Wealth Risen Rapidly in the Twenty‐First Century? 2 3 8 12 3 8 25 32
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 24 64 240 8,103 102 303 1,073 38,570


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China's Remarkable Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 2 3 10 357
The Rural-Urban Divide: Economic Disparities and Interactions in China 0 0 0 0 4 15 325 11,562
Towards a Labour Market in China 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 1,219
Total Books 0 0 0 0 7 20 341 13,138


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China’s Labour Market: Evolution and Impediments 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
The Determinants of Educational Attainment in China 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 8
The Rural–Urban Divide and the Evaluation of Political Economy in China 0 0 0 15 0 1 1 50
Why Urban Wages Differ in China 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Workers in China’s Rural Industries 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2
Total Chapters 0 0 0 15 0 2 5 63


Statistics updated 2023-05-07