Over the past quarter-century China has seen a dramatic increase in income inequality, prompting a shift in China's development strategy and the adoption of an array of new policies to redistribute income, promote shared growth, and establish a social safety net. Drawing on of household-level data from the China Household Income Project, Changing Trends in China's Inequality provides an independent, comprehensive, and empirically grounded study of the evolution of incomes and inequality in China over time. Edited by leading experts on the Chinese economy, the volume analyzes this evolution in China as a whole as well as in the urban and rural sectors, with close attention to measurement issues and to shifts in the economy, institutions, and public policy. Specific essays provides analyses of China's wealth inequality, the emergence of a new middle class, the income gap between the Han majority and the ethnic minorities, the gender wage gap, and the impacts of government policies such as social welfare programs and the minimum wage.
Author(s): Terry Sicular; Shi Li; Ximing Yue; Hiroshi Sato
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 512
City: Oxford
00-Copyright
01-Contributors and Editors
03-Figures
04-Tables
05-Preface
06-Abbreviations
07-Glossary
ch01 Changing Trends in China’s Inequality
ch02 Overview
Incomes and Inequality in China, 2007‒2013
ch03 China’s Emerging Global Middle Class
ch04 The Increasing Inequality of Wealth in China
ch05 Social Policy Reforms and Economic Distances in China
ch06 Public Policy and Long- Term Trends in Inequality in Rural China
ch07 New Patterns in China’s Rural Poverty
ch08 Unequal Growth
ch09 Consumption Inequality in Urban China
ch10 Income and Poverty Gaps between Han and Ethnic Minorities in Rural China
ch11 China’s Urban Gender Wage Gap
ch12 The Effects of the Minimum- Wage Policy on the Wage Distribution in Urban China
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