Trends in social mobility in postrevolution China

Yu Xie, Hao Dong, Xiang Zhou and Xi Song
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Yu Xie: a Center for Social Research, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;; b Department of Sociology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544;
Hao Dong: a Center for Social Research, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;
Xiang Zhou: c Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138;
Xi Song: d Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022, vol. 119, issue 7, e2117471119

Abstract: Accompanying a sharp rise in economic inequality in China since its economic reform, two countercurrents characterize the trends in China’s intergenerational social mobility. On the one hand, industrialization in postreform China has promoted occupational mobility. On the other hand, both occupational mobility net of industrialization and educational mobility in China have trended downward, reaching levels similar to those in the United States in the most recent cohort. In earlier cohorts, whereas social mobility for Chinese men was unusually high, social mobility was particularly limited for Chinese women from rural hukou origin.

Keywords: social mobility; trends; occupation; education; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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