We investigate the evolution of wage levels, wage inequality, and wage determinants among urban residents in China … using China Household Income Project data from 1988, 1995, 2002, 2007, and 2013. Average wage grew impressively between each … thereafter - a process that came to a halt in 2007. During the period in which China was a planned economy the gender wage gap …

Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent … urban areas in China are important reasons for this cross-country difference in inequality. Wage is a more non …-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers …

The changes in the employment structure in rural China are studied with a focus on off farm self-employment. Data from … the China Household Income Project surveys covering the same 14 provinces from 1988 to 2018 are used. We find that the … proportion of adults in rural China with self-employment as their primary form of off-farm employment increased from only 2 …

We investigate the evolution of wage levels, wage inequality, and wage determinants among urban residents in China … using China Household Income Project data from 1988, 1995, 2002, 2007, and 2013. Average wage grew impressively between each … thereafter - a process that came to a halt in 2007. During the period in which China was a planned economy the gender wage gap …

Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … earnings reach a maximum at a lower age than in China. The association between education and income in China has increased to … while the publically employed in China enjoy a positive payoff of limited magnitude. …

The incidence of working for earnings beyond the normal pension age of 55 for females and 60 for males in urban China …, and having a higher education level but is negatively associated with age, the scale of pension and, in urban China, being … female. We find that seniors in urban Russia are more likely to work for earnings than their counterparts in China. Two …

In China hukou (the household registration system) imposes barriers on permanent migration from rural to urban areas … counterparts left behind in rural China. The probability of becoming a permanent migrant is positively related to parental …