Bargain, Olivier; Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2008
This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … 1980s Indian premium is mainly due to higher returns to education and experience, a combination of price and endowment … effects explains why Chinese wages have caught up, especially since the mid-1990s. The price effect is only partly explained …