The Anatomy of Rising Earnings Inequality in Urban China

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• 作者：Gustafsson ; Bjö ; rn ; Shi ; Li
• 刊名：Journal of Comparative Economics
• 出版年：2001
• 出版时间：March, 2001
• 年：2001
• 卷：29
• 期：1
• 页码：118-135
• 全文大小：67.9 K

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A labor market is beginning to emerge in urban China during a period of rapid growth and changed labor supply. In this paper, we investigate how earnings inequality and relative earnings have changed between 1988 and 1995 using two large samples covering 10 provinces. The results verify that, as expected, earnings inequality has increased rapidly. The expansion can be traced to two components, the basic wage and subsidies. The analysis shows that the growth in earnings inequality is not limited to certain segments of the labor force but affects all categories as defined by ownership sector, region, and education. J. Comp. Econ., March 2001 29(1), pp. 118–135. Department of Social Work, University of Göteborg, P.O. Box 720, SE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden; and Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany; and Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2 Yuetan Beixiaojie, Beijing, People's Republic of China. Copyright 2001 Academic Press.