This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the period 2001-07. Using a novel administrative dataset of minimum wage regulations across more than 2,800 counties matched with countrywide firm-level data, we investigate both the...

We provide a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and GDP in China using both aggregate and provincial data. The Kuznets elasticity is about 0.6 for China, higher than that in advanced countries but below that of major emerging markets. The elasticity...

We assess links between China and the rest of emerging Asia. Some commentators have argued that China's apparent devaluation in 1994 may have contributed to the Asian financial crisis. We argue that the devaluation was not economically important: The more relevant exchange rate was a floating...

This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the 2000-2007 periods. Using a novel dataset of minimum wage regulations across more than 2,800 counties matched with firm-level data, we investigate both the effect of the minimum...