differentials contributed increasingly to income inequality in urban China through 1988, 1995, and 2002, mainly due to rapid income … contribute increasingly to income inequality, while being employed the whole year and age have decreasing contributions. If China …

Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent … urban areas in China are important reasons for this cross-country difference in inequality. Wage is a more non …-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers …