01659pab a2200193 454500008004000000100002200040245009400062260000900156300001400165362000800179520103400187650003201221650002801253650002001281773003301301909001001334999001701344952010401361180718b2002   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aWalder, Andrew G.  aMarkets and income inequality in rural China: political advantage in an expanding economy  c2002  ap.231-53.  aApr  aWhen 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 findingss from 1980s ' surveys. Well into reform's second decade, political office holding 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 entrepreneurship, 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. - Reproduced.  aIncome distribution - China  aEconomic growth - China  aEconomic growth  aAmerican Sociological Review  a53122  c53122d53122  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 67, Issue no: 2pAR53559r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR