Handbook on Inequality in China

Edited by Björn Gustafsson () and Xiuna Yang ()

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Abstract: This comprehensive Handbook addresses a wide range of issues concerning inequality in contemporary China and its recent past. It covers diverse forms of inequality faced by Chinese citizens, from wage and income disparities to employment, education, the role of social insurance and public revenues.

Keywords: Transformed Chinese Economy; Evolving Social Policy; Household Welfare; Inequality; Contemporary China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035317790
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction to the Handbook on Inequality in China

Björn Gustafsson and Xiuna Yang

Ch 2 Income inequality in China

Chuliang Luo and Shi Li

Ch 3 Employment inequality in China

Jie Yang and Chuanchuan Zhang

Ch 4 Wage inequality

Chunbing Xing

Ch 5 Trends of household wealth inequality in China from 2012 to 2020

Haiyuan Wan and Jin Zheng

Ch 6 Educational access, quality, and inequality in China: Recent policies, priorities, and progress

Marco M. Laghi, Wensong Shen and Emily Hannum

Ch 7 Inequality and housing (policy)

Jiaxin He, Yaqin Li and Sanbai Sun

Ch 8 Income inequality and happiness in China

John Knight

Ch 9 Inequality of health opportunity in China: What do we know?

Peng Nie

Ch 10 Inequality of opportunity in Chinese income

Xiuna Yang, Björn Gustafsson and Terry Sicular

Ch 11 Urban-rural inequality in China

Shouying Liu and Haoze Li

Ch 12 Urban inequality in China

Xueliang Liu

Ch 13 Rural inequality

Hisatoshi Hoken, Hiroshi Sato and Qun Su

Ch 14 Child inequality in China

Hui Xu

Ch 15 Income inequality and redistribution

Zhonghua Wang, Meng Cai and Ximing Yue

Ch 16 Multi-track pensions and inequality among older adults in China

Peng Zhan, Hanrui Jia and Leyi Tian

Ch 17 Inequality in social assistance provision and receipt

Xuan Huo and Qin Gao

Ch 18 Self-employment and inequality

Xinxin Ma

Ch 19 Top incomes and inequality in China

Qinghai Li and Yangcheng Yu

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