increasing income inequality, mostly between rural and urban areas but also within both rural and urban areas and across regions …, besides bringing the benefits of productivity increases, also brings structural adjustments that exacerbate income inequality … results do not show that trends in inequality have a significant effect on poverty. However, the process of economic growth …

, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … migrating peasants, and, consequently, has a positive effect on narrowing the rural-urban income or consumption gap. Urban labor …

Most of the earlier studies on the convergence of income in China are based on provincial level data with a few papers … very little evidence of convergence to the mean income in various spatial groupings. Furthermore, the empirical analysis … paper makes several contributions to the literature. The findings in this paper show high persistence in income distribution …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …

This study attempts to examine the growth pattern of China’s economy during 1978-1998 from the perspective of income … the transitions of provinces between the states of income over time, but also to predict whether there is a tendency … across provinces to converge in real income per worker in the long run. This study finds evidence of a slight reduction of …

“equilibrium” efficiency and a robust convergence in China's agricultural efficiency; the latter has also been enhanced by China …