returns to schooling for college graduates during China's reform between 1988 and 2002. We find that there were substantial …

Industry mean wages in China have exhibited sharply increased dispersion since the early 1990s. The upward trend in … contributed to wage inequality due monopoly rent sharing. We show that the industrial wage dispersion in China has evolved to … ; China …

during China's between 1988 and 2002. We pay special attention to the changing role of sorting by ability versus budget …-constraint effects as China's education policy has changed from one in which the bulk of direct costs are paid by government for students …