We document the evolution of the income distribution in rural China, from 1987 through 1999, with an emphasis on … conducted by the China's Research Center for Rural Economy (RCRE) in Beijing. These surveys permit us to construct a set of …

Using data from the China Urban Labor Survey conducted in five large Chinese cities at year end 2001, we quantify the …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three … document significant increases of inequality within China’s urban and rural populations. In rural areas, increased inequality …