Poverty among ethnic minorities and the majority in rural China for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 is investigated … proportion among the ethnic majority was only about half as high. Still, by far most of the poor in rural China belong to the … ethnic majority. The relatively high poverty rates for ethnic minorities in rural China are found to be due to higher rates …

While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others … and western China for 1995 and 2002. For 2002, persons of high rank make up 3 percent and persons of middle rank make up … middle ranks. -- China ; rank ; income ; income inequality …

This paper investigates how ethnic minorities in rural China are faring compared with the ethnic majority. The village … is the unit of analysis and large surveys for 2002 are used. Minority villages in northeast China are found to have a …

less on developing countries and very little on China involving migrant workers in spite of their growing practical and … search procedures used by migrant workers in China by taking advantage of a rich data set on migrant workers that has … in China. However, our IV results suggest that the OLS estimates are subject to severe selection bias from the fact that …

Since China promulgated new minimum wage regulations in 2004, the magnitude and frequency of changes in the minimum … changes in China over the period of 2004 to 2009. In contrast to the mixed results of previous studies using provincial … Central regions of China, and result in disemployment for females, young adults, and low-skilled workers. …

of China is disadvantaged compared to the Han majority as regards length of education and household per capita wealth …

and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in …

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

Dibao receipt in rural and in urban areas of China is contrasted using household data from seven province-level units … while low household wealth is more important for Dibao-receipt in rural areas. In rural China, membership of the Communist … Party of China (CPC) increases the probability of Dibao receipt. A larger proportion ethnic minority households than …