economic incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system which favors urban residents and discriminates …

Disparities in length of schooling between the largest Muslim minority in China, the Hui, and the Han majority are …

in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and … researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until recently had a dual system of household surveys - one rural and one urban …

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 …

This paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the … quantiles, along with wage differentials by sex and party membership. The role of industrial structure, ownership reform and …

Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality … measured in terms of expenditure. Even though income growth reduces poverty, the radical reform measures implemented in the …

One of the most notable social phenomena in China is the large urban-rural disparity. There are many studies of it, but … and rural households in China from 1988 to 2002. Our results suggest that low quantiles are associated with large …

influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for …

Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent … urban areas in China are important reasons for this cross-country difference in inequality. Wage is a more non …-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers …

This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income …