The paradoxes of rural-urban inequality in contemporary China / Martin King Whyte -- Small-town China : a historical perspective on rural-urban relations / Hanchao Lu -- Rural migrant workers and China's differential citizenship : a comparative institutional analysis / Wu Jieh-min -- How large...

Using data from the China Household Income Project, this study analyzes the effects of minimum wage policy on wage distribution in urban China from 1993 to 2013. Several major conclusions emerge from this research. First, with respect to the effects of the minimum wage on wages for low-wage...

Minimum wage policy supported by a strong social policy is an efficient mechanism against poverty and income erosion of the poorest households. Minimum wage is one of the instruments which can control wage dispersion and in this way reduce income inequality. It can also help to prevent a general...