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

a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …

China. Our OLS estimate shows that being a Party member increases earnings by 10%, but the within-twin-pair estimate becomes …

Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … misleading indicators of long-run income inequality? How much income mobility was there in China in the first half of the 1990s …

household has poor access to water. For testing we use data from rural villages in the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We …

Since the second half of the 1990s economic restructuring in urban China has led to widespread joblessness and income … survey covering large parts of urban China in 2002, we investigate factors affecting receipt and how receipt affects urban … while having been sent to rural China during the Cultural Revolution increases it. For some types of households, receipt of …

Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours …