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 investigates the evolution of earnings inequality in urban China from 1989 to 2006. After decomposing the … variance of log of earnings into transitory and permanent two parts, we find that both components are important contributors to … the total variance of earnings. We also find that the share of the transitory part has been decreasing from early 1990 to …