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Book

Minimum Wages in China: Evolution, Legislation, and Effects, edited by Li Shi and Carl Lin. June 2020
London: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 978-981-15-2420-2.

Book Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Transforming Informal Work and Livelihoods in China in Climbing the Job Ladder? Informal and formal work in a dynamic context, Chapter 3, edited by Gary S. Fields, T.H. Gindling, Kunal Sen, Michael Danquah, and Simone Schotte, WIDER Studies in Development Economics. Oxford University Press.April 2023. (with Linxiang Ye and Wei Zhang) [Open Access Link]

  • Working paper version: “WIDER Working Paper 150/2020, UNU-WIDER, 2020. [Download]

Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)

In English

Where Did The Time Go? The Effects of China’s Two-Day Weekend Policy on Labor Supply, Household Work, and Wages, China Economic Review, 2023. (with Tony Fang and Xueli Tang), forthcoming [Available Online Here]

Son Preference and Human Capital Investment Among China’s Rural-Urban Migrant Households, Journal of Development Studies, 2021, 57 (12), 2077-2094. (with Yan Sun and Chunbing Xing)

The Impact of Minimum Wages on Wages, Wage Spillovers and Employment in China: Evidence from Longitudinal Individual-Level Data. Review of Development Economics, 2021, 25 (2), 854-877. (with Tony Fang and Morley Gunderson

Social Disadvantage and Children’s Nutritional Status in Rural-Urban Migrant Households. Journal of Contemporary China2019, 28(120), 899-915. (with Yana Rodgers)

Minimum Wage Competition between Local Governments in China, Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55(12), 2479-2494 (with Ravi Kanbur and Yanan Li)

Parental Migration Decisions and Child Health Outcomes: Evidence from China, Health and Labor Markets (Research in Labor Economics*, Vol. 47), Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, 2019, 47, 281-310. (with Yana Rodgers).

How Does the Minimum Wage Affect Firm Investments in Fixed and Human Capital? Evidence from China, Review of Development Economics, 2017, 21(4), 1057-1080 (with Tobias Haepp).

The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Earnings Inequality: Evidence from China, Income Inequality Around the World (Research in Labor Economics*, Vol. 44), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, 2016, 44, 179-212. (with Myeong-Su Yun).

The Use and Impact of Job Search Procedures by Migrant Workers in China, China Economic Review, 2016, 37(0), 154-165 (with Tony Fang and Morley Gunderson).

Minimum Wages and Employment in China, IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4:22, 1-30 (with Tony Fang)

How Do Immigrants from Taiwan Fare in the US Labor Market?, Singapore Economic Review, 2015, 60:3.

A Detailed Decomposition of Synthetic Cohort Analysis, Economics Letters, 2015, 127(0), 76-80 (with Tavis Barr).

Earnings Gap, Cohort Effect and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the United States, Review of International Economics, 2013, 21(2), 249-65.

Decomposing Abnormal Returns in Stochastic Linear Models, Economics Letters, 2013, 118(1), 143-47.

In Chinese

实现高质量就业更应该保护谁?—基于非正规就业异质性的分析 (与张尉、叶林祥合作), 《世界经济文汇》2024.

迁移、男孩偏好与教育机会 (与孙妍、邢春冰合作), 《经济学(季刊)》2019, Vol. 19(1): 189-208.

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