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Trends in social mobility in postrevolution China

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  • Yu Xie

    (a Center for Social Research, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;; b Department of Sociology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544;)

  • Hao Dong

    (a Center for Social Research, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China;)

  • Xiang Zhou

    (c Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138;)

  • Xi Song

    (d Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104)

Abstract

Accompanying a sharp rise in economic inequality in China since its economic reform, two countercurrents characterize the trends in China’s intergenerational social mobility. On the one hand, industrialization in postreform China has promoted occupational mobility. On the other hand, both occupational mobility net of industrialization and educational mobility in China have trended downward, reaching levels similar to those in the United States in the most recent cohort. In earlier cohorts, whereas social mobility for Chinese men was unusually high, social mobility was particularly limited for Chinese women from rural hukou origin.

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  • Yu Xie & Hao Dong & Xiang Zhou & Xi Song, 2022. "Trends in social mobility in postrevolution China," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 119(7), pages 2117471119-, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nas:journl:v:119:y:2022:p:e2117471119
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    1. Shi, Songyun & Chen, Yu-Chih & Yip, Paul S.F., 2023. "Relative deprivation patterns in social and geographical references for health trajectories in China: Investigations of gender and urban-rural disparities," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 317(C).
    2. Yongxiao Du & Hao Dong, 2023. "Homeownership pathways and fertility in urban China," Journal of Population Research, Springer, vol. 40(3), pages 1-15, September.
    3. Liu, Chun & Liu, Hao & Zhang, Huiping & Yuan, Qin, 2023. "The impact of internet use on the perceptions of class boundaries and life trajectories: A report from a representative survey in China," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 47(10).

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