enforcing minimum wage standards during 2004-2012 in China. We manually collect a panel data set of city-level minimum wage … standards from China's government websites. This analysis finds strong evidence of spatial interdependence in minimum wage … standards and enforcement among main cities in China.If other cities decrease minimum wage standards by 1 RMB, the host city …

Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking …

Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate …

The path of urbanization around the world and in particular in China has been rapid. This study addresses measurement … urbanization. This study has a number of objectives. First we identify key determinants of public infrastructure components in … China at the province level. Second a multidimensional index of the networking among the components is computed. The index …

rural residents. In this paper we focus on China's household registration system, or "hukou", as a potential source of the …

cities have survived. We analyze a sample of nearly 300 prefectural-level cities in China, among which about half … historically had city walls. We document that cities that had walls in late imperial China have higher population and employment …

In this paper, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate how well China's urban areas absorb migrant workers … under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-oriented BCC model to evaluate provincial … and regional rural labor absorption efficiency in mainland China. It appears that 4 out of 31 provinces and municipals are …

influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for …

in the future. The urbanization strategy of the government will likely raise the number of migrants with limited hukou …

-being. In this paper, we examine the link between weight, height and well-being for three distinct samples in China given that … attractiveness effects likely vary greatly across sociocultural contexts. As China has recently undergone rapid economic …