Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Contributors -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- One Rising Inequality in China -- I. Introduction -- II. The Policy Context -- A. Social Welfare and Social Security Programs -- B. Employment Policy: Labor-Market Policies and...

Background: Industrial income differential is the most important cause of the public dissatisfaction with the income inequality in China. The high income of monopoly industries is now the typical one of the massive income inequity phenomena. But objectively speaking, not all high income of...

Party membership and social networks, as two forms of nonmarket power, have significant effects on personal income and act as driving forces of inequality in China. Do the effects vary across different ownership sectors (suoyouzhi xingshi)? Using a nationally representative survey of urban...

Coupled with advances in enterprise reform and changes in the wage structure, earnings inequality in urban China has been increasing, and this has contributed significantly to rising income inequality. Using urban household survey data from the 1988, 1995 and 2002 waves of the China Household...