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Work in progress / working papers
Falling into poverty or escaping from it? The effect of the minimum wage in urban China , with Carl Lin, Achim D. Schmillen & Dewen Wang
CERGIC Working Paper (R&R World Development).
Choosing to leave: Income risk, expected gains, and child human capital in rural China, with Siwar Khelifa & Béatrice Rey.
Migration and the use of financial services by left-behind families - Evidence from China, with Anna Jolivet.
Migration, family living arrangements and subjective well-being in China, with Shi Li & Hui Xu.
"Double Reduction" policy and household investment in education, with Mengbing Zhu.
Left-behind children in China: Parental choice versus institutional constraints, with Hui Xu.
Publications (English / French)
Publications (English / French)
Migration / Labor market / Education / Urban economics
Housing costs and real income differences across Chinese cities, with Ziyang Chen, Pierre-Philippe Combes & Xiuyan Liu, CERGIC Working Paper
Journal of Development Economics, 2025, 176, 103527 (DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2025.103527).
Employer learning and the dynamics of returns to universities : Evidence from Chinese elite education during university expansion, with Eric A. Hanushek & Lei Zhang, NBER Working Paper No. 25955
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2024, 73(1), 339-379.
Minimum wages and poverty, with Carl Lin, Achim D. Schmillen & Dewen Wang
in Balancing Workers’ Protection and Labor Market Flexibility in China, ed. by J. Posadas, A. D. Schmillen & D. Wang., The World Bank, 2021, pp. 173-190.
Labour market outcomes of ethnic minorities in urban China
in Ethnicity and Inequality in China, ed. by B. Gustafsson, R. Hasmath & S. Ding, New York and Oxford: Routledge, 2021, 185-215.
Unequal migration and urbanisation gains in China, with Pierre-Philippe Combes, Li Shi & Wang Jianguo
Journal of Development Economics, 2020, 142.
Internal migration, agriculture and rural development in China
Background paper prepared for The State of Food and Agriculture 2018 : Migration, agriculture and rural development, FAO, 2018.
Productivity gains from agglomeration and migration in the People’s Republic of China between 2002 and 2013, with Pierre-Philippe Combes & Li Shi
Asian Development Review, 2017, 34(2), 1-17.
Remittances and expenditure patterns of the left behinds in rural China, with Wang Xiaoqian
China Economic Review, 2016, 37, 177-190.
IZA World of Labor, April 2015.
Left-behind children and return migration in China, with Xu Hui
IZA Journal of Migration, 2015, 4:10.
Migration externalities in Chinese cities, with Pierre-Philippe Combes and Li Shi
European Economic Review, 2015, 76, 152-167.
Research in Labor Economics, 2013, 37:31-63.
Do employees in public sector still enjoy earnings advantages?, with Li Shi and Yang Juan
in Rising Inequality in China: Challenges to a Harmonious Society, ed. by S. Li, H. Sato & T. Sicular, Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp. 332-361.
in Rebalancing and Sustaining Growth in China, ed. by H. McKay & L. Song, ANU E-Press, 2012, 207-223.
Earnings differentials between the public and private sectors in China : Exploring changes for urban local residents in the 2000s, with Li Shi & Yang Juan
China Economic Review, 2012, 23(1):138-153.
World Development, 2011, 39(10):1847-1861.
China Perspectives, 2010-4. View the Content of the Special Issue.
Migrants as second-class workers in urban China ? A decomposition analysis, with Marc Gurgand, Li Shi & Yue Ximing
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2009, 37(4):610-628.
Discrimination et libéralisation : Les femmes sur le marché du travail dans la Chine urbaine, with Chen Yi & Martin Fournier
Revue Française d’Economie, 2009, 24(1):207-238.
The evolution of gender earnings gaps and discrimination in urban China, 1988-95, with Chen Yi & Martin Fournier
The Developing Economies, 2007, 45(1):97-121.
Economic liberalization and rising segmentation in China’s urban labor market, with Martin Fournier, Li Shi & Wei Zhong
Asian Economic Papers, 2006, 5(3):58-101.
Reprinted in Governing Rapid Growth in China - Equity and Institutions, ed by R. Kanbur & X. Zhang, Routledge, 2009.
Urban income inequality in China revisited, 1988-2002, with Martin Fournier & Li Shi
Economics Letters, 2006, 93(3):354-359.
Earnings differentials and ownership structure in Chinese enterprises, with Chen Yi & Martin Fournier
Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2005, 53(4):933-958.
Salary differentials according to sex in urban China, with Chen Yi & Martin Fournier
China Perspectives, 2004, 54:29-38. [Réformes sur le marché du travail urbain en Chine et différentiels salariaux par sexe, Perspectives chinoises, 2004, 83:32-42].
Natural resources / Rural economics
Volunteer and satisfied ? Rural households’ participation in a payments for environmental services programme in Inner Mongolia, with Adeline Pelletier
Ecological Economics, 2015, 116, 25-33.
Pro-rural policies, income and inequality : Evaluating a cash-for-work program in rural China, with Chen Yu
Asian Economic Papers, 2014, 13(3), 87-114.
Payments for ecological restoration and internal migration in China : The Sloping Land Conversion Program in Ningxia, with Wan Haiyuan
IZA Journal of Migration, 2012, 1:10.
Poverty and firewood consumption : A case study of rural households in northern China, with Martin Fournier
China Economic Review, 2011, 22(4):512-523.
Rural households’ decisions towards income diversification : Evidence from a township in northern China, with Martin Fournier & Yang Weiyong
China Economic Review, 2010, 21:S32-S44.
Forest management policies and resource balance in China : an assessment of the current situation, with Hou Yuanzhao & Yang Weiyong
The Journal of Environment and Development, 2009, 18(1):17-41.
Economic changes and afforestation incentives in rural China, with Yang Weiyong
Environment and Development Economics, 2006, 11(5):629-649.
Forest protection policies: National guidelines and their local implementation in northern Sichuan, with Martin Fournier & Shen Guozhen
China Perspectives, 2005, 59:2-13. [Les politiques de conservation de la forêt : Directives nationales et mise en œuvre locale dans le Nord du Sichuan, Perspectives Chinoises, 2005, 88:2-14].
Infrastructure / Economic growth
Infrastructure in China
in Oxford Companion to the Economics of China, ed. by S. Fan, R. Kanbur, S.-J. Wei & X. Zhang, Oxford University Press, 2014, 348-352.
Croissance
in Dictionnaire de la Chine contemporaine, ed. by T. Sanjuan, Armand Colin, Paris, 2006, pp. 58-59.
Explaining unequal distribution of economic growth among China provinces: Geography or policy?, with Jeffrey D. Sachs, Wing-Thye Woo, Bao Shuming, and Gene Chang
in Urbanization and Social Welfare in China, ed. by A. Chen, G. G. Liu & K. H. Zhang, Ashgate Studies on the Economic Reform of China, England, July 2004, pp. 269-306.
The relative contributions of location and preferential policies in China’s regional development: Being in the right place and having the right incentives, with Jeffrey D. Sachs, Wing-Thye Woo, Bao Shuming & Gene Chang
China Economic Review, 2002, 13(4): 444-465.
Geography, economic policy and regional development in China, with Jeffrey D. Sachs, Wing-Thye Woo, Bao Shuming, Gene Chang & Andrew Mellinger
Asian Economic Papers, 2002, 1(1):146-197. (NBER Working Paper, No. 8897, 2002).
Croissance de la productivité dans l’industrie manufacturière chinoise : Le rôle de l’investissement direct étranger, with Chen Yu
Economie Internationale, 2002, 92:131-164.
China's regional development: Prospects and policy, with Gilles Lelong
in China in the World Economy: The Domestic Policy Challenges, 2002, Paris: OECD, Chapter 21.
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2001, 29(1):95-117.
Foreign direct investment and economic growth: theory and application to China, with Jean-Claude Berthélemy
Review of Development Economics, 2000, 4(2):140-155.
Economic Opening and Growth in China, Development Centre Studies, Paris: OECD, March 2000, 96 pages, reviewed.
[Ouverture économique et croissance en Chine, Études du Centre de Développement, OCDE, Paris, 2000].
Revue d’Économie Politique, 2000, 2:207-229.
Revue d’Économie du Développement, 1999, 1/2:71-93.
Revue Économique, 1998, 49(1):151-163.
Revue d’Économie du Développement, 1996, 1/2:145-168.
Revue Économique, 1996, 47(3):841-850.
Other
Assistance et éducation des travailleurs chinois pendant la Grande Guerre – Le rôle du Mouvement Travail-Etudes, with Martin Fournier & Annie Au-Yeung
in Les travailleurs chinois en France dans la Première Guerre mondiale, ed. by Li MA, CNRS Éditions, May 2012, 323-343. [in French]
Techniques financières et développement, 2005, 79:23-33.
Papers in Chinese
Papers in Chinese
Zhōngguó chéngzhèn bùtóng suǒyǒuzhì qǐyè zhígōng shōurù chājù de biànhuà qūshì (“Earnings differentials between the public and the private sectors in China”), with Yang Juan and Li Shi
China Economic Quarterly, 2012, 11(1):289-308.
Zhōngguó jīngjì zhuǎnxíng zhōng chéngzhèn láodònglì shìchǎng fēngē wèntí – bùtóng bùmén zhígōng gōngzī shōurù chājù de fēnxī (“The issue of labor market segmentation during economic transition in China: An analysis of wage differentials across economic sectors”), with Martin Fournier, Li Shi and Wei Zhong
Management World, 2009, 3:55-62.
Zhōngguó jīngjì gǎigé yu chéngzhèn láodònglì shìchǎng fēngē – bùtóng dìqū zhígōng gōngzī shōurù chājù de fēnxī (“Economic reform and labor market segmentation in China: An analysis on regional wage inequality”), with Martin Fournier, Li Shi and Wei Zhong
Chinese Journal of Population Science, 2008, 2:2-11.
Zhōngguó jīngjì gǎigé yu chéngzhèn láodònglì shìchǎng fēngē (“Economic liberalization with rising segmentation in China’s urban labor market”), with Martin Fournier, Li Shi and Wei Zhong
Comparative Studies, 2008, 35:13-26.
Zhōngguó qǐyè de gōngzī chāyì hé suǒyǒuzhì jiégòu (“Wage differentials and ownership structure in Chinese enterprises”), with Chen Yi and Martin Fournier
World Economic Papers, 2005, 169:11-31.
Pínkùn-huánjìng jiǎshuō: Láizì Zhōngguó běifāng yīgè cūnzhèn de zhèngjù (“The poverty-environment hypothesis: Evidence from a rural township in Northern China”), with Martin Fournier
World Economic Papers, 2005, 164:11-26.
Lun dili weizhi yǔ yōuhuì zhèngcè dui Zhōngguó dìqū jīngjì fāzhǎn de xiangguan gòngxiàn (“The Relative Contributions of Location and Preferential Policies in China’s Regional Development”), with Jeffrey D. Sachs, Wing-Thye Woo, Bao Shuming, and Gene Chang
Economic Research Journal (Jingji Yanjiu), 2002, 9:14-23.
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