Erschienen in:The University of Texas Inequality Project Working Paper ; No. 67
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1 Online-Ressource (25 p)
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Englisch
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.2464620
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This paper provides new estimates of the evolution of pay inequality in China, overall and by region and sector, from 1987 to 2012, using the between-groups component of Theil's T-statistic measured across regions and sectors. We find that China's overall pay inequality started to rise rapidly in the early 1990s, that it peaked in 2008, with the between-provinces component peaking as early as 2002. Since 2008 overall pay inequality has decreased, with between-province and between-sector inequality both showing steady declines. In these respects, the evolution of pay inequality in China mirrors the trajectory expected under the hypothesis of a Kuznets curve