China (PRC) since 2008 and inquires whether the decline indicates that the PRC's income inequality has peaked following the …

Coupled with advances in enterprise reform and changes in the wage structure, earnings inequality in urban China has … the 1988, 1995 and 2002 waves of the China Household Income Project, in this article, we decompose earnings inequality in … urban China by using the recently developed regression-based decomposition methods. The decomposition results indicate that …

(PIT) in China beginning in 1997. We find that the average tax rate plays a larger role in determining the income … loser before 2005, but it benefited from the PIT policy reform. A cross-country comparison shows that China has a lower PIT … burden and higher progressivity than developed countries; in fact, China's levels of progressivity and tax burden are similar …

"This work provides a new, comprehensive, and empirically grounded study of household incomes in China that critically … data from the China Household Income Project (CHIP), a collaborative, international research project that has organized … consistent picture of the evolution of China's income and inequality from the late 1980s to the beginning of the Xi Jinping era …