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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gustafsson, Björn
• Yang, Xiuna

Titel

Earnings among nine ethnic minorities and the Han majority in China's cities

Ist Teil von

• Journal of the Asia Pacific economy, 2017-07, Vol.22 (3), p.525-546

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This paper asks if economic growth and steps towards a market economy have affected earnings gaps between the Han and nine large urban ethnic minorities: Zhuang, Hui, Manchurian, Tujia, Uighur, Miao, Tibetan, Mongol and Korean. It also asks how earnings premiums and earnings penalties have changed for the nine ethnic minorities. For the analysis we use a subsample of the 2005 China's Inter-Census Survey. We find examples of three different changes over time in earnings premiums and earnings penalties: One ethnic minority for whom the development has been more favourable than for the Han majority; a second category in which development has been similar; and a third category for which development has been unfavourable. We conclude from the analysis that it can be misleading to infer the experience of one ethnic minority from that of another.