Markets and Income Inequality in Rural China
Political Advantage in an Expanding Economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4889334 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrew G Walder (0000-0001-7515-4854, Stanford University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 231 |
| Publication date | 2002-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3088894 |
| OpenAlex | W2074197693 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 91 |
| References cited | 41 |
When market reform generates rapid growth in an agrarian subsistence economy, changes in inequality may be due to economic growth and structural change rather than to the intrinsic features of markets. The case of post-Mao China is examined using nationally representative survey data gathered in 1996 to address unresolved questions about findings from 1980s' surveys. Well into reform's second decade, political officeholding has a large net impact on household income-comparable to that of operating a private enterprise. Contrary to findings based on earlier surveys and expectations about the impact of growth, cadre household advantages are stable across levels and forms of economic expansion. Returns to entrepreneur ship, however, decline sharply with the spread of wage employment. Future declines in relative returns to political position are therefore unlikely to occur due to the further spread of private household entrepreneurship, and theories of change based on this mechanism appear untenable
Agrarian society · Agriculture · China · Development economics · Economic inequality · Economic system · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Income distribution · Income inequality metrics · Inequality · Labour economics · Political science · Politics · Position (finance · Social inequality · Subsistence agriculture · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Income, Poverty, and Inequality
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Area Studies/Asian Studies
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Philosophy and Critical Realism
Philosophy and Standpoint Theory
Sociology
Sociology and Economics
China's Gilded Age
Proliferation of educational credentials, changing economic returns, and rising occupational education requirements
Economic inequalities in contemporary rural China
Changes in college attainment and the economic returns to a college degree in urban China, 2003-2010
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Tocquevillian Moments
Emerging Inequalities in Central and Eastern Europe
Dynamics of the Gender Earnings Inequality in Reform-Era Urban China
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Class Differentiation in RuralChina
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Market and Nonmarket Pathways to Home Ownership and Social Stratification in Hybrid Housing Regimes
Market Transition, Industrialization, and Social Mobility Trends in Postrevolution China
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Socialist entrepreneurs
Earnings, Education, and Economic Reforms in Urban China
Regional Variation in Earnings Inequality in Reform-Era Urban China
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Market Transition and Societal Transformation in Reforming State Socialism
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| Unique citing works | 78 |
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| Citations per year | 3,79 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2024 (23) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 90 |