While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others … and western China for 1995 and 2002. For 2002, persons of high rank make up 3 percent and persons of middle rank make up … middle ranks. -- China ; rank ; income ; income inequality …

Rapid education expansion and rising income inequality are two striking phenomena occurring in China during the … transitional period. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data collected in 1997 and 2006, this paper studies how … effect. In explaining the earning gap in China, the price effect is more important than the population effect. The labor …

China's phenomenal growth is accompanied by both relatively low level of standards of living and high inequality. It is … China during economic transition. We find that returns to education are generally more pronounced for individuals in the …

This paper assesses regional inequality in contemporary urban China by predicting earningss for individual workers in …

variable in driving down China's wage inequality between 2010 and 2018. We find that (1) education accounted for over 30% of …