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A Spatial Analysis of Wages and Incomes in Urban China: Divergent Means, Convergent Inequality 0 0 0 1 0 1 7 238
A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China, and the Lewis Model 0 1 9 99 1 10 40 353
Adoption and diffusion of agricultural innovations in Ethiopia: the role of Education 0 0 1 245 0 3 22 1,653
Are searching and non-searching unemployment distinct states when unemployment is high? The case of South Africa 0 0 1 48 0 3 17 168
Aspirations, Adaptation and Subjective Well-Being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 0 0 1 226 1 13 31 629
Can the Augmented Solow Model Explain China's Economic Growth? A Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis 0 0 3 1,518 3 21 45 4,219
China as a Developmental State 0 0 3 265 0 10 27 638
China's macroeconomic imbalances: causes and consequences 0 0 0 103 1 4 22 414
China, South Africa and the Lewis Model 0 0 0 161 0 3 6 479
China, South Africa, and the Lewis Model 0 0 0 88 0 1 11 360
China’s Increasing Inequality of Wealth: Piketty with Chinese Characteristics? 0 0 1 30 1 2 13 75
China’s Expansion of Higher Education: the Labour Market Consequences of a Supply Shock 1 1 5 216 2 10 30 352
China’s Inequality is Important – but which Inequality? 0 0 0 69 0 1 8 124
Chinese Peasant Choices: Farming, Rural Industry or Migration 0 0 0 0 0 3 11 752
Chinese Rural Migrants in Urban Enterprises: Three Perspectives 0 0 0 2 2 5 11 788
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 119 0 1 6 577
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 20 2 8 21 153
Community, Comparisons and Subjective Well-being in a Divided Society 0 0 0 9 0 1 10 136
Cumulative Causation and Inequality Among Villages in China 0 0 0 0 0 3 10 327
Divergent Means and Convergent Inequality of Incomes among the Provinces and Cities of Urban China 0 0 1 16 1 3 13 122
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 11 1 3 11 132
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 19 0 1 22 164
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 29 0 7 31 178
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 15 0 4 9 123
Economic Growth, Economic Reform anf Rising Inequality in China 0 0 0 0 0 2 10 428
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China 0 0 0 101 0 4 7 256
Education externalities in rural Ethiopia: evidence from average and stochastic frontier production functions 1 2 3 53 5 12 23 256
Educational Inequality in China: The Intergenerational Dimension 0 0 1 259 1 1 18 656
Fiscal Decentralisation, Redistribution and Reform in China 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 117
Great Expectations? The Subjective Well-Being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 0 0 0 327 0 6 20 942
How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa? 0 0 1 15 1 5 17 68
Income Inequality and Happiness: Which Inequalities Matter n China? 0 1 1 73 1 5 15 93
Income Inequality in Rural China: Communities, Households and Resources Mobility 0 0 0 0 0 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 0 6 19 148
Income, Aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a Poor Society 0 1 3 192 3 17 37 762
Increasing Wage Inequality in China: Efficiency Versus Equity? 0 0 0 1 0 1 7 432
Inequality in China: an overview 0 0 0 214 1 6 17 427
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 23 0 0 9 163
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 78 2 26 47 564
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 149 0 8 24 487
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 28 1 1 21 277
Investment and financing constraints in China: does working capital management make a difference? 0 0 0 92 1 2 23 298
Is Happiness Infectious? 0 0 0 234 0 2 8 655
LEWIS THROUGH A LOOKING GLASS: PUBLIC SECTOR EMPLOYMENT, RENT-SEEKING AND ECONOMIC GROWTH 0 0 0 0 0 1 18 544
Labour market policies and outcomes in Zimbabwe 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 63
Lewis through a looking glass: public sector employment, rent-seeking, and economic growth 0 0 0 74 1 5 33 308
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 2 11 191
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 53 0 0 10 166
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 1 20 1 3 18 172
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 77 0 3 14 217
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 11 0 2 10 117
Negative investment in China: financing constraints and restructuring versus growth 0 0 0 18 0 2 9 136
New integrated concepts and measures of income poverty and of 'common prosperity' in China 1 1 1 9 2 3 22 33
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 0 472 1 6 30 2,052
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 37 0 3 10 208
Subjective Well-being Poverty versus Income Poverty and Capabilities Poverty? 0 0 1 30 0 5 16 143
Subjective Well-being and Social Evaluation in a Poor Country 0 0 0 98 0 6 17 206
Subjective Well-being and its Determinants in Rural China 0 0 0 573 1 9 37 1,491
Subjective well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 8 0 2 10 57
THE DETERMINANTS OF URBAN INCOME INEQUALITY IN CHINA 0 0 0 0 0 1 17 720
THE SPATIAL CONTRIBUTION TO INCOME INEQUALITY IN RURAL CHINA 0 0 0 3 0 2 12 675
The Curious Case of Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China 0 0 0 27 1 7 20 129
The Determinants of Educational Attainment in China 0 0 0 0 1 5 13 725
The Economic Causes and Consequences of Social Instability in China 0 0 0 286 3 6 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 3 11 489
The Evolution of the Migrant Labor Market in China, 2002-2007 0 0 0 181 0 1 6 164
The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in China, 2002-2013 0 1 5 172 1 10 34 727
The Length of Life and the Standard of Living: Economic Influences on Premature Death in China 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 126
The Principal-Agent Problem, Economic Growth, Subjective Wellbeing and Social Instability: China 0 0 0 74 0 2 8 338
The Puzzle of Migrant Labour Shortage and Rural Labour Surplus in China 0 0 1 793 3 10 24 1,642
The Quality of Society and Happiness: Fairness, Trust, and Community in China 0 1 2 16 0 6 21 51
The Role of Social Capital in the Labour Market in China 0 0 2 331 0 3 23 1,000
The coming economic, social, and political apocalypse? 0 0 0 7 0 0 9 38
The direct and indirect economic consequences of climate damage in poor countries 0 0 0 18 0 2 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 0 11 395
The puzzle of falling happiness despite rising income in rural China: ten hypotheses 0 0 1 54 1 6 13 133
The receding housing ladder: house price inflation, parental support, and the changing intergenerational distribution of housing in China 0 0 0 23 0 4 22 63
Unemployment and wages in South Africa: A spatial approach 0 1 1 38 0 7 19 157
Unemployment in South Africa, 1995-2003: Causes, Problems and Policies 0 0 0 31 1 8 19 134
Unemployment in South Africa: The nature of the beast 0 0 0 46 0 0 11 279
Unemployment in South Africa: the nature of the beast 0 0 1 801 1 3 17 4,676
Urban Insiders versus Rural Outsiders: Complementarity or Competition in China`s Urban Labour Market? 0 0 0 140 2 7 19 607
Well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 0 37 1 4 9 167
Well-being poverty versus income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 0 1 586 1 3 19 2,155
Why does China invest so much? 1 1 2 338 2 3 15 835
Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change 0 1 1 150 1 6 23 873
Why has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Structural Change 0 1 2 271 1 7 29 1,088
Total Working Papers 4 13 57 11,478 58 399 1,502 52,110

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A Simulation Alternative to the Comparative R2 Approach to Decomposing Inequality 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 80
A Tale of Two Countries and Two Stages: South Africa, China and the Lewis Model 0 1 4 14 0 6 24 64
Addendum: Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 162
An Analysis of Racial Wage Discrimination in South Africa 0 0 0 0 1 4 15 746
Black Wages and Choice of Techniques in South Africa 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 73
Can the augmented Solow model explain China's remarkable economic growth? A cross-country panel data analysis 0 2 12 511 0 13 62 1,402
Caste discrimination in the Indian urban labour market 0 2 14 635 0 8 40 1,492
Causes et conséquences des réductions d'effectifs dans les entreprises publiques en Chine 0 0 0 4 0 4 12 130
China as a Developmental State 1 1 7 61 10 24 53 256
China's growing but slowing inequality of household wealth, 2013–2018: A challenge to ‘common prosperity’? 0 0 3 15 0 6 17 55
China’s Macroeconomic Imbalances: Causes and Consequences 0 0 0 57 0 2 8 316
China’s evolving inequality 0 0 0 18 0 1 11 62
China’s expansion of higher education: The labour market consequences of a supply shock 0 2 7 41 9 15 59 238
Chinese Peasant Choices: Migration, Rural Industry or Farming 0 0 0 85 0 2 9 269
Chinese rural migrants in urban enterprises: Three perspectives 0 0 0 76 1 5 15 318
Community, comparisons and subjective well-being in a divided society 0 0 1 166 0 2 15 505
Contrasting paradigms: segmentation and competitiveness in the formation of the chinese labour market 0 0 1 163 0 4 22 647
Cumulative causation and inequality among villages in China 0 0 0 30 0 5 19 170
Devaluation and Income Distribution in Less-Developed Economies 0 0 0 60 0 3 6 189
Does China overinvest? Evidence from a panel of Chinese firms 0 0 0 3 0 2 19 66
Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? 0 0 1 83 1 3 20 345
Earnings, Schooling, Ability, and Cognitive Skills 0 0 0 438 0 3 19 997
Economic Causes and Cures of Social Instability in China 0 0 0 7 1 1 8 77
Economic Growth in China: Productivity and Policy 0 0 0 20 0 2 6 81
Economic Policies for a Harmonious Society: A Symposium: Editorial Introduction 0 0 0 10 0 3 8 38
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China: Closing the Trap 0 0 2 56 0 2 15 343
Education and the Poverty Trap in Rural China: Setting the Trap 0 0 1 67 0 2 16 224
Educational Attainment and the Rural--Urban Divide in China 0 0 0 1 1 3 16 1,470
Educational Expansion and the Kuznets Effect 0 1 2 401 2 9 24 1,067
Educational Policy and Labour Productivity: An Output Accounting Exercise 0 0 0 68 1 3 6 333
Educational expansion, government policy and wage compression 0 0 0 34 0 6 11 108
Employment Constraints and Sub-optimality in Chinese Enterprises 0 0 0 0 1 5 8 262
Explaining Income Distribution in Less Developed Countries: A Framework and an Agenda 0 0 0 1 0 3 17 237
Externality Effects of Education: Dynamics of the Adoption and Diffusion of an Innovation in Rural Ethiopia 0 0 1 39 1 2 16 604
Fair and unfair inequality in China 0 0 0 5 0 5 12 32
Fiscal decentralization: Incentives, redistribution and reform in China 0 0 0 67 0 3 16 270
From Migrants to Proletarians: Employment Experience, Mobility and Wages in Tanzania 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 133
Great Expectations? The Subjective Well-being of Rural-Urban Migrants in China 1 1 4 243 3 10 38 902
Has Capitalism Underdeveloped the Labour Reserves of South Africa? 0 0 0 0 0 1 9 142
How Flexible are Wages in Response to Local Unemployment in South Africa? 0 0 2 55 0 2 20 274
How High is Urban Unemployment in China? 0 0 1 425 1 7 29 1,886
Income inequality and happiness: Which inequalities matter in China? 1 1 2 21 3 9 26 107
Income, aspirations and the Hedonic Treadmill in a poor society 0 0 4 68 1 7 23 277
Increasing urban wage inequality in China 0 1 2 254 1 5 19 844
Inequality in China: An Overview 0 0 0 26 0 1 13 118
Investment and financing constraints in China: Does working capital management make a difference? 3 5 6 105 6 25 48 463
Is Happiness Infectious? 0 0 1 6 0 1 8 60
Is the Rate of Return on Primary Schooling Really 26 Per Cent? 0 0 0 0 0 2 8 277
Job Competition, Occupational Productions, and Filtering Down 0 0 0 35 1 1 9 212
Job mobility of residents and migrants in urban China 0 0 0 111 0 3 14 349
Labor retrenchment in China: Determinants and consequences 0 0 0 244 0 4 11 866
Labour Allocation and Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 150
Labour Market Issues in Zimbabwe: Lessons for South Africa 0 0 0 41 0 2 7 177
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 0 5 15 62
On the Determination of the General Wage Level: A Rejoinder 0 0 0 10 0 0 1 66
Price Scissors and Intersectoral Resource Transfers: Who Paid for Industrialization in China? 0 0 1 94 0 4 20 393
Primary Education as an Input into Post-primary Education: A Neglected Benefit 0 0 0 4 0 1 8 855
Production Externalities of Education: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia 0 0 0 0 1 2 9 321
Public Sector Employment, Rent Seeking and Economic Growth 0 0 1 238 0 2 8 745
Race and the Incidence of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 123 0 4 14 589
Reform, Growth, and Inequality in China* 0 0 2 91 1 3 13 210
Rural-Urban Income Comparisons and Migration in Ghana 0 0 0 3 0 2 7 635
Segmentation or competition in China's urban labour market? 0 0 0 30 0 2 14 104
Seniority Payments, Quit Rates, and Internal Labour Markets in Britain and Japan 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 124
Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China 0 0 0 29 0 4 14 117
Subjective well-being and its determinants in rural China 0 2 6 235 2 4 30 785
Subjective well-being poverty vs. Income poverty and capabilities poverty? 0 2 4 150 0 6 29 490
The Determinants of Urban Income Inequality in China 0 0 0 1 0 1 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 1 3 11 261
The Nature of Unemployment in South Africa 0 0 0 115 0 1 3 556
The Puzzle of Falling Happiness despite Rising Income in Rural China: Eleven Hypotheses 0 0 2 23 1 6 15 70
The Quality of Society and Happiness: Fairness, Trust, and Community in China 0 0 2 2 0 4 15 18
The Returns to Education: Increasing with Experience or Decreasing with Expansion? 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 261
The Role of Occupation in the Determination of Wages 0 0 0 53 0 0 9 140
The Role of the Firm in Wage Determination: An African Case Study 0 0 0 16 0 1 4 68
The Rural-Urban Divide in China: Income but Not Happiness? 0 1 6 158 4 16 49 482
The Societal Cost of China's Rapid Economic Growth 0 0 0 6 2 3 17 64
The Spatial Contribution to Income Inequality in Rural China 0 0 0 0 0 1 12 704
The direct and indirect economic consequences of climate damage in poor countries 0 0 1 1 0 2 12 12
The economic causes and consequences of social instability in China 0 0 1 56 0 4 19 420
The measurement of unemployment when unemployment is high 0 0 1 226 1 1 13 717
The puzzle of migrant labour shortage and rural labour surplus in China 0 0 1 107 2 4 23 431
The rate of return on educational expansion 0 0 0 34 1 2 8 85
The role of education in facilitating risk-taking and innovation in agriculture 0 1 2 231 1 5 15 1,142
The role of social capital in the labour market in China1 0 0 2 89 1 5 13 303
Three Poverties in Urban China 0 0 0 52 0 5 13 187
Towards a Labour Market in China 0 0 0 1 0 1 16 1,100
Unemployment duration and earnings of re-employed workers in urban China 0 0 1 89 1 5 9 260
Unemployment in South Africa, 1995--2003: Causes, Problems and Policies 0 1 3 268 0 10 41 1,219
Unemployment in South Africa: The Nature of the Beast 0 0 9 510 3 12 71 2,456
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 3 8 85
Wages and Employment in Developed and Underdeveloped Economies 0 0 0 41 1 4 10 251
Wages in Africa: What Should a Foreign Firm Do? 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 326
Wages, firm profitability and labor market segmentation in urban China 0 0 0 235 0 1 12 563
Why Do Girls in Rural China Have Lower School Enrollment? 1 1 2 223 1 5 15 662
Why Does China Invest So Much? 0 0 0 107 0 1 14 362
Why has China Grown So Fast? The Role of Physical and Human Capital Formation 0 0 0 0 0 1 87 251
Why has China’s Inequality of Household Wealth Risen Rapidly in the Twenty‐First Century? 0 1 6 27 0 4 32 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 1 3 6 87
Total Journal Articles 7 26 131 8,639 70 403 1,714 42,002

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China's Remarkable Economic Growth 0 0 0 0 1 5 17 396
Economic Transformation and Income Distribution in China over Three Decades 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 7
Economic Transformation and Income Distribution in China over Three Decades 0 0 0 0 1 2 5 9
The Rural-Urban Divide: Economic Disparities and Interactions in China 0 0 0 0 3 8 26 11,637
Towards a Labour Market in China 0 0 0 0 0 1 13 1,241
Total Books 0 0 0 0 5 16 65 13,290

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China’s Labour Market: Evolution and Impediments 0 0 0 0 1 2 8 12
The Determinants of Educational Attainment in China 0 0 0 2 0 2 8 20
The Rural–Urban Divide and the Evaluation of Political Economy in China 0 0 0 19 0 1 13 75
Why Urban Wages Differ in China 0 0 0 0 0 3 8 11
Workers in China’s Rural Industries 0 0 0 0 0 2 9 15
Total Chapters 0 0 0 21 1 10 46 133

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