While most studies find evidence of a wage-firm size premium, we find that larger firms in China actually pay lower … wages. We also find that the most plausible explanation for this result is that larger firms in China employ a higher ratio …

) to ascertain the personal well-being of China's urban population.The specific aims of the study were: (a) ascertain … representative of the urban population and larger in size than that which has been utilized in existing studies for Mainland China …; (c) compare the results to existing studies for Hong Kong, Macau, rural China and single city studies which have …

Existing research applying the Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI) in China is restricted to urban and rural samples. There … with the circular nature of migration in China. When China's offfarm migrants find it too difficult to cope in the cities … buffer to minimize the inherent challenges of life which would otherwise impinge on the life satisfaction of China's off …

This study contributes to an important, but under-researched, topic on China by empirically examining the theory of … in the context of China’s urban labour market. …