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Xiaogang Wu
Researcher at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Publications - 117
Citations - 3812
Xiaogang Wu is an academic researcher from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: China & Population. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 102 publications receiving 3068 citations. Previous affiliations of Xiaogang Wu include New York University & University of Michigan.
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The Household Registration System and Social Stratification in China: 1955-1996
Xiaogang Wu,Donald J. Treiman +1 more
TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper show that education and membership in the Chinese Communist Party are the main determinants of upward social mobility in rural to urban mobility in China, using data from a 1996 national probability sample.
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Inequality and Equality under Chinese Socialism: The Hukou System and Intergenerational Occupational Mobility
Xiaogang Wu,Donald J. Treiman +1 more
TL;DR: This article analyzed the effect of family background on occupational mobility in contemporary China, with particular attention to the rural-urban institutional divide, and shed light on the relationships between the socialist state and social fluidity and between inequality and mobility.
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Does the market pay off? Earnings returns to education in Urban China
Xiaogang Wu,Yu Xie +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a typology of workers is developed based on individuals' labour market histories, and a model of selective mobility of workers from the state sector to the market sector is offered as an explanation for higher earnings returns to education.
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Changes in educational inequality in China, 1990-2005: Evidence from the population census data
Xiaogang Wu,Zhuoni Zhang +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the trend in school enrollment and transitions to senior high school and to college in China for selected young cohorts since the 1990s, based on the analyses of the sample data from population censuses in 1990 and 2000 and the mini-census in 2005.
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Unequal Care, Unequal Work: Toward a more Comprehensive Understanding of Gender Inequality in Post-Reform Urban China
TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical framework regarding how the two-sphere separation in contemporary China, embedded in how gender equality was organized in the socialist time, has been driven by the state and is further justified by changing gender ideologies.