Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis Tao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using a national sample of Urban Household Surveys, we document several profound changes in China's wage structure … during a period of rapid economic growth. Between 1992 and 2007, the average real wage increased by 202 percent, accompanied … by a sharp rise in wage inequality. Decomposition analysis reveals 80 percent of this wage growth to be attributable to …