This paper analyzes the causes of earnings inequality in urban China from 1988 to 2002. Earnings inequality in urban … China continuously increased, even when adjusting for regional price differences. This paper reveals how the causes of … China. Contrary to the situation from 1988 to 1995, between 1995 and 2002, employment status became the largest disequalizer …

inequality increase in urban China from 1988 to 2002. Product demand shift contributed to an equalizing of earnings distribution … in urban China from 1988 to 1995 by increasing the relative product for the low educated. However, it contributed to …