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 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 …

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 …

This paper investigates the evolution of earnings inequality in urban China from 1989 to 2006. After decomposing the … distribution of long-term earnings. -- Earnings inequality ; covariance structure of earnings ; China …

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 …