Income inequality in China has risen rapidly in the past decades across regions, between rural and urban sectors, and … most important factors explaining overall inequality are differential returns to schooling and sector of employment. A … carried out during the last 25 years. The authors argue that rising income inequality can be part of a normal process of …

percent in 2004. At the same time, however, different kinds of disparities have increased. Income inequality has risen … working class. There have also been increases in inequality of health and education outcomes. Some rise in inequality was … inevitable as China introduced a market system, but inequality may have been exacerbated rather than mitigated by a number of …

for inequality and poverty. Drawing on analyses based on existing household survey data and aggregate data from official … balanced, and an increase in income inequality. The paper then examines why growth was uneven and why this should be of concern … inequality and uneven growth that are good or bad in terms of what they imply for both equity and long-term growth and …

to which total income inequality is due to differential effort, as opposed to differential circumstances. This pair of …

This paper estimates the relationship between initial village inequality and subsequent household income growth for a … for an array of household and village characteristics, the paper finds that households located in higher inequality … villages experienced significantly lower income growth through the 1990s. However, local inequality’s predictive power and …