All of the demographic and skill groups in China's urban labor market received increases in their real earnings from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. This paper analyzes these relative earnings increases with respect to the relative supply and demand changes for each of these imperfectly...

This book evaluates China’s relations with sub-regional Southeast Asia through its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation framework. The book looks at domestic drivers and regional receptivity of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and also delves into the challenges...

A novel image forensic algorithm against contrast modification based on merged weight histogram of run length is proposed. In the proposed algorithm, the run length histogram features were firstly extracted, and then those of different orientation were subsequently merged; after normalization of...

A novel random grid and reversible watermarking based verifiable secret sharing scheme for outsourcing image in cloud is proposed in the paper. In the proposed scheme, data owner firstly embeds the hash value of the secret image into the secret image itself using reversible watermarking...

type="main" <p>The restructuring of the Chinese electricity sector in 2002 reshaped the market structure by vertically unbundling the dominant integrated firm and started the process of wholesale price liberalization. We estimate factor demands to study whether these reforms boosted productivity in...</p>

We study whether the 2002 deregulation and vertical unbundling of the Chinese electricity sector has boosted productivity in the generation segment of the industry. Controlling explicitly for sources of price-heterogeneity across firms and for firm-fixed effects, we find deregulation to be...