China's Retreat from Equality: Income Distribution and Economic Transition by Ca

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Basing their work on two national surveys of household income in China - in 1988 and 1995 - leading Chinese and Western economists explore a wide range of aspects of the rapidly changing income distribution that occurred during this critical period of reform and transition to a market system. They consider increasing inequality and its causes, urban wages, the gender earnings gap, rural migration, income distribution and food security, and more.

Author Biography

Carl Riskin, Zhao Renwei, Li Shih

Table of Contents

1: Introduction The Retreat from Equality: Highlights of the Findings; I: Perspectives on Increasing Inequality; 2: Increasing Income Inequality and Its Causes in China; 3: A More Unequal China? Aspects of Inequality in the Distribution of Equivalent Income; 4: Economic Growth, Economic Reform, and Rising Inequality in China; II: Urban China; 5: Income Distribution in Urban China During the Period of Economic Reform and Globalization; 6: A Spatial Analysis of Wages and Incomes in Urban China: Divergent Means, Convergent Inequality; 7: Urban Housing Welfare and Income Distribution; 8: Economic Transformation and the Gender Earnings Gap in Urban China; III: Rural China; 9: Rural Interregional Inequality and Off-Farm Employment in China; 10: Food Security of Low Income Groups in Rural China; 11: Reexamining the Distribution of Wealth in Rural China; 12: Gender Effects on Household Resource Allocation in Rural China; 13: Labor Migration and Income Distribution in Rural China; 14: Chinese Rural Poverty Inside and Outside the Poor Regions

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