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100			_aWalder, Andrew G.
245			_aMarkets and income inequality in rural China: political advantage in an expanding economy
260			_c2002
300			_ap.231-53.
362			_aApr
520			_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.
650			_aIncome distribution - China
650			_aEconomic growth - China
650			_aEconomic growth
773			_aAmerican Sociological Review
909			_a53122
999			_c53122 _d53122