Journal Special Issue
Income inequalities and redistribution in China

This special section presents the main findings about long-run trends in inequality in China and its driving factors as they emerge from a country case study carried out under a UNU-WIDER-supported project.

Special focus in the umbrella project were on three issues: (i) the role of earnings inequality and its determinants; (ii) the role of top incomes when administrative records or other sources can be combined with household surveys; and (iii) the redistributive impact of public policies.

Main findings of the project including those for China results were presented in a special panel during the UNU-WIDER Think Development – Think WIDER development conference held in Helsinki in September 2018.

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Editor

Finn Tarp

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August 2020

China Economic Review, Elsevier,

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chieco.2020.101516

© UNU-WIDER 2020

Country

China

Region

East Asia & Pacific

Table of contents
  1. Introduction to income inequalities and redistribution in China
    Finn Tarp
  2. Wage growth and inquality in urban China: 1988-2013
    Björn Gustafsson, Haiyuan Wan
    More Working Paper | Wage growth and inequality in urban China
  3. Income and consumption inequality in China: A comparative approach with India
    Carlos Gradín, Binbin Wu
    More Working Paper | Income and consumption inequality in China
  4. The long-term evolution of national income inequality and rural poverty in China
    Chuliang Luo, Shi Li, Terry Sicular
    More Working Paper | The long-term evolution of income inequality and poverty in China
  5. Top incomes in China: Data collection and the impact on income inequality
    Qinghai Li, Shi Li, Haiyuan Wan
    More Working Paper | Top incomes in China
  6. The redistributive role of government social security transfers on inequality in China
    Meng Cai, Ximing Yue
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Context

Project
Inequality in the giants