Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - In: World Development 62 (2014) C, pp. 1-13
This paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China from 1988 to 2008 by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition, finding sharp increases in inequality largely due to changes in the wage structure. During 2002–08, changes in the...