China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply … local labor markets. This chapter uses data from the 2008 and 2009 migrant surveys of the Rural-Urban Migration in China … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We …

In China hukou (the household registration system) imposes barriers on permanent migration from rural to urban areas …. Using large surveys for 2002, we find that permanent migrants number about 100 million persons and constitute approximately …'s Liberation Army are important career paths towards urbanisation and permanent migrants are much better-off then their …

which share in common their use of household data from the latest round of the China Household Income Project (CHIP) survey … to analyze recent trends in inequality in China. We begin with an overview of relevant economic and policy developments … in China and discuss data and measurement issues. We discuss our central estimates of national income inequality based on …

In this chapter we examine trends in China's household incomes, income distribution and inequality for China as a whole …

This chapter seeks to throw new light on the emergence of the Chinese economic middle class using data from the China … Household Income Project from 2002, 2007, and 2013. We find that between 2002 and 2013 China's income distribution was … rich if living in a high-income country, we find that the share of China's population that was middle class was extremely …

This study attempts to convey an accurate and dynamic account of educational inequality in China during the last decade …. The study finds that there is clear evidence of rapid expansion of education, and younger students all over China are … of students, meaning that educational inequality in China is deteriorating further. Lastly, a decomposition analysis …

economic incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system which favors urban residents and discriminates …

We empirically deconstruct informal employment in China into private business owners and casual workers without job …

question. This comparative exploratory study of Chinese and Nigerian entrepreneurial migrants in Ghana and Benin provides … the innovative culture of Chinese entrepreneurial migrants versus that of African entrepreneurial migrants. Rather, there …Der bemerkenswerte Zustrom von Kleinunternehmern aus China in Westafrika stößt auf wachsenden Widerstand bei …