Gao, Qin; Yang, Sui; Zhai, Fuhua; Wang, Yake - 2017
, and migrant household sectors. We find that over the years pensions in the urban areas consistently helped narrow the … effects of a series of social policy reforms on the economic distance between the rich and poor in each of the urban, rural … benefits. Despite the expansion of social policy during this period, in both urban and rural China market forces still played a …