Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality …

Despite the intensive efforts made by economists to examine regional income inequality in China, limited attention has … in urban China over the period 1986 to 2001. Spatial Price Index (SPI) is normally calculated using the Basket Cost … those obtained from the Basket Cost method. Further, regional price variations in urban China increased significantly during …

The employment shock of late 2008 in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) may have been a product of three different …

endogeneity problem our results show that rural migrants in urban China have modest positive or zero effects on the average …

new-generation migrants in China's urban workforce. We present evidence to suggest that new-generation migrants are less … with aspirations rising faster than income in China's fast growing urban economy. …

This study contributes to an important, but under-researched, topic on China by empirically examining the theory of … compensating differentials in the context of China's migrant workers. Using survey data collected from the Pearl River Delta in … Guangdong province in south China, this study applies the Firpo-Fortin-Lemieux quantile decomposition method to examine the …

This study explores the relationship between home ownership and subjective wellbeing in urban China. We first present a … theoretical model examining the relationship between housing property rights and subjective wellbeing in China. We then test the …