Meng, Xin; Shen, Kailing; Xue, Sen - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 1, pp. 227-244
In the past 20 or so years the average real earnings of Chinese urban male workers have increased by 350%. Accompanying this unprecedented growth is a considerable increase in earnings inequality. Between 1988 and 2009 the variance of log earnings increased from 0.28 to 0.54, a 94% increase....