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1. Growing Out of Poverty : Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988-2002
abstractThis paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant thereafter. Models of the determination of income and poverty reveal widening differentials by education, sex and party membership. Income from government anti-poverty programs has little impact on poverty, which has fallen almost entirely due to overall economic growth rather than redistribution
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie;2021
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2. The Economics of Communist Party Membership : The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China's Transition
abstractWhy is it that, as the Chinese Communist Party has loosened its grip, abandoned its core beliefs, and marketized the economy, its membership has risen markedly along with the economic benefits of joining? We use three national household surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize individual demand for Party membership as an investment in "political capital" that brings monetary rewards in terms of higher wages. This wage premium has risen with the growing wage differentials associated with the emergence of a labour market and the continuing value of political status in the semi-marketized transitional economy. However, a demand-side explanation does not explain the fact that the wage premium is higher for the personal characteristics that reduce the probability of membership. We develop an explanation in terms of a rationing of places and a scarcity value for members with those characteristics
Appleton, Simon; Knight, John B.; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie;2021
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3. Consumption inequality in urban China, 1995-2013
abstractWe use CHIP data from 1995, 2002, and 2013 to investigate inequality in urban household consumption expenditures. Overall inequality in urban household consumption expenditures measured by the Gini coefficient decreased slightly from 0.33 in 1995 to 0.32 in 2002, but it increased to 0.36 in 2013. This followed the same trend as that of urban income, though to a greater extent. However, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality always increased. In addition, basic food consumption inequality was much smaller than overall consumption, with its contribution decreasing from 20 percent in 1995 and 2002 to 14 percent in 2013 and its share decreasing steadily from 34 percent in 1995 to 30 percent in 2002 and further to 24 percent in 2013 as the level of overall consumption moved up in the distribution during each of the three years. Housing consumption inequality was much larger than overall consumption but it was decreasing over time, with its contribution to overall consumption inequality increasing 35 percent in 1995 and 2002 and then to 40 percent in 2013 and its share also sharply increasing from 23 percent in 1995 to 30 percent in 2002 and further to 38 percent in 2013. In addition, its share reveals an upward slope as the level of overall consumption increased in each of the three years.
Xia, Qingjie; Li, Shi; Song, Lina;2017
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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4. Urban consumption inequality in China, 1995-2013
abstractWe use 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini coefficient slightly decreases from 0.33 in 1995 to 0.32 in 2002, but increases to 0.36 in 2013, which follows the same trend with that of urban income but is severer. However, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality increases all the time. Besides, the inequality of basic food consumption is much smaller than the overall consumption, its contribution to the overall consumption inequality decreases from 20% in 1995 and 2002 to 15% by 2013, and its share also decreases steadily from 34% in 1995 to 30% in 2002 and further to 24% in 2013, and finally its share steadily decreases as the overall consumption level moving up the distribution in each of the three years. The inequality of housing consumption is much larger than overall consumption but decreasing over time, its contribution to the overall consumption inequality increases 35% in earlier two years to 40% by 2013, and its share also sharply increases from 23% in 1995 to 30% in 2002 and further to 38% in 2013, besides its share shows upward sloping as overall consumption level increases in each of the three years.
Xia, Qingjie; Li, Shi; Song, Lina;2017
Type: Arbeitspapier; Working Paper; Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature;
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5. The effects of the state sector on wage inequality in urban China : 1988 - 2007
abstractThis paper examines the effects of state sector domination on wage inequality in urban China. Using Chinese Household Income Project surveys, we conduct two exercises: with quantile regression analysis, we identify wage gaps across the distribution and over time; and we employ the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition to investigate how urban wage inequality was affected by the changes in wage structure and employment share of the state sector. We find that since the radical state sector reforms designed to reduce over-staffing and improve efficiency since the late 1990s, urban wage gaps were narrowed due to the reduction of employment share in the state sector; the wage premium of the state sector in comparison with the non-state sector increased significantly; and changes in the wage structure of the labour market caused the rise in urban wage inequality. -- China ; state sector ; wage inequality ; quantile regression ; counterfactual analysis
Xia, Qingjie; Song, Lina; Li, Shi; Appleton, Simon;2013
Type: Arbeitspapier; Working Paper; Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature;
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6. Understanding urban wage inequality in China 1988 - 2008 : evidence from quantile analysis
abstractThis paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition, finding sharp increases in inequality from 1988 to 1995 and from 2002 to 2008 largely due to changes in the wage structure. The analysis reports how the returns to education and experience vary across wage quantiles, along with wage differentials by sex and party membership. The role of industrial structure, ownership reform and occupational change are also estimated. In the recent period, 2002 to 2008, falls in the returns to education and experience have been equalising. However, changes in every other category of observed wage differential - by sex, occupation, ownership, industrial sector and province - have served to widened inequality. The gender gap continued to rise, as did the gap between white collar and blue collar workers, and between manufacturing and most other industrial sectors. -- China ; labour ; wages ; quantile regression ; inequality
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie;2012
Type: Arbeitspapier; Working Paper; Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature;
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7. Understanding Urban Wage Inequality in China 1988-2008 : Evidence from Quantile Analysis
abstractThis paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition, finding sharp increases in inequality from 1988 to 1995 and from 2002 to 2008 largely due to changes in the wage structure. The analysis reports how the returns to education and experience vary across wage quantiles, along with wage differentials by sex and party membership. The role of industrial structure, ownership reform and occupational change are also estimated. In the recent period, 2002 to 2008, falls in the returns to education and experience have been equalising. However, changes in every other category of observed wage differential – by sex, occupation, ownership, industrial sector and province – have served to widened inequality. The gender gap continued to rise, as did the gap between white collar and blue collar workers, and between manufacturing and most other industrial sectors
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie;2014
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8. Growing Out of Poverty : Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988-2002
abstractThis paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant thereafter. Models of the determination of income and poverty reveal widening differentials by education, sex and party membership. Income from government anti-poverty programs has little impact on poverty, which has fallen almost entirely due to overall economic growth rather than redistribution
Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon; Xia, Qingjie;2014
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9. The Effects of the State Sector on Wage Inequality in Urban China : 1988–2007
abstractThis paper examines the effects of state sector domination on wage inequality in urban China. Using Chinese Household Income Project surveys, we conduct two exercises: with quantile regression analysis, we identify wage gaps across the distribution and over time; and we employ the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition to investigate how urban wage inequality was affected by the changes in wage structure and employment share of the state sector. We find that since the radical state sector reforms designed to reduce over-staffing and improve efficiency since the late 1990s, urban wage gaps were narrowed due to the reduction of employment share in the state sector; the wage premium of the state sector in comparison with the non-state sector increased significantly; and changes in the wage structure of the labour market caused the rise in urban wage inequality
Xia, Qingjie; Song, Lina; Shi, Li; Appleton, Simon;2013
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Citations: 2 (based on OpenCitations)
10. The economics of communist party membership : the curious case of rising numbers and wage premium during China's transition
abstractWhy is it that, as the Chinese Communist Party has loosened its grip, abandoned its core beliefs, and marketized the economy, its membership has risen markedly along with the economic benefits of joining? We use three national household surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize individual demand for Party membership as an investment in "political capital" that brings monetary rewards in terms of higher wages. This wage premium has risen with the growing wage differentials associated with the emergence of a labour market and the continuing value of political status in the semi-marketized transitional economy. However, a demand-side explanation does not explain the fact that the wage premium is higher for the personal characteristics that reduce the probability of membership. We develop an explanation in terms of a rationing of places and a scarcity value for members with those characteristics. -- China ; Communist Party ; labour market ; economic transition ; wages
Appleton, Simon; Knight, John B.; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie;2008
Type: Arbeitspapier; Working Paper; Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature;
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