Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality …

This paper investigates the evolution of earnings inequality in urban China from 1989 to 2006. After decomposing the …

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of …

This paper estimates the intergenerational income elasticity for urban China, paying careful attention to the potential … that while China has experienced rapid growth of absolute incomes, the relative position of children in the distribution is …

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of … the wage distribution. -- China ; India ; earnings ; returns to education ; quantile regression ; Oaxaca …

This paper estimates the intergenerational income elasticity for urban China, paying careful attention to the potential … that while China has experienced rapid growth of absolute incomes, the relative position of children in the distribution is …

endogeneity problem our results show that rural migrants in urban China have modest positive or zero effects on the average … adverse impact of migration on urban native labour market outcomes. -- migration ; native labour market outcomes ; China …

Rural-urban migrants in China appear to prefer nearby destination cities. To gain a better understanding of this … migrants in China based on their migration destination choices. Our baseline estimates suggest that to induce a migrant to move …-distance tradeoff ; rural-urban migration ; hukou system ; China …