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

Together with the economic transition, in China the return to education and the skill premium increased; this … carried out by using the China Health and Nutrition Survey provided by the Carolina Population Center for the period 1989 … representative at national level: the Barro-Lee dataset, providing observations from 1975, and the data published in the China …

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

Using annual urban household survey data from 6 provinces in different regions of China, we analyze the rapid increase … in earning inequality of urban China from 1988 to 2003. We describe overall and residual inequality trends and use …

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 …

This paper investigates the evolution of earnings inequality in urban China from 1989 to 2006. After decomposing the …