Labour Market Reform in China documents and analyses institutional changes in the
Chinese labour market over the last twenty-five years, and argues that further reform is …

Previous studies have found that the returns to education in rural China are far lower than
estimates for other developing economies. In this paper, we seek to determine why previous …

Using metadata from 39 studies of 11 countries, we explore the growth in returns to
schooling during transition across Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and …

China's market-oriented labor market reform has been in place for about one and a half
decades. This study uses individual data for 1981 and 1987 to examine the success of the …

A body of existing research attributes evident underpayment of workers and low private
returns to schooling in China through the mid-1990s to the persistence of labor-market …

Analyses of returns to educational investments in China, based on 1981, 1985, and 1986
data, have yielded surprisingly low and sometimes negative rates. Given the extent of wage …

In the present study the way in which the gender wage gap in urban China differs according
to marital status, education and occupation, is examined. Married Chinese women …

Major economic reforms in Vietnam since 1986 have included a number of measures to
liberalize the labor market. It is too soon to assess the full impact of these reforms, but this …

This book reflects a shared conviction that many challenges facing contemporary society are
inherently complex and are best understood from multiple disciplinary and methodological …

We reexamine the economic returns to education in the People's Republic of China (PRC)
using data from the Chinese General Social Survey 2010. We find that the conventional …