In this article we focus on the role of exports in Chinese economic development era WTO accession. We address a series different, although connected, questions. First, do exporting and non-exporting firms differ terms their productivity performance paid wages? Second, to what extent have contributed process convergence catching-up? Third, does productivity-wage pass-through between firms? Overa...

This paper proposes a methodology for the assessment of social progress in the biggest Spanish municipalities between years 2001 and 2011. We follow recent descriptions of QoL to elaborate a measurement framework composed of eight dimensions, for which 16 subindicators are elaborated from information collected using different data sources. Weight constrained Data Envelopment Analysis is used to...