other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment, income, marriage, sex, health and age. Communist Party membership …

Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition, finding sharp increases in inequality from 1988 to 1995 and from 2002 to 2008 largely …, industrial sector and province – have served to widened inequality. The gender gap continued to rise, as did the gap between …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three … series of data sets. Our focus is on both urban and rural inequality, as well as the urban-rural gap, with the objective of … summarizing several “first-order” empirical patterns concerning the trajectory of inequality through the reform period. We …

regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …