Abstract Party membership and social networks, as two lorms 01 nonmarket power, have signilicant effects on personal income and act as driving lorces 01 inequality in China. Do the effects vary across different ownership sectors (suoyouzhi xingshl)? Using a nationally representative survey 01 urban households (China Household Income Project surveys in 1995 and 2002), we lind that (i) pa叫y membership can signilicantly increase personal income, but this effect does not signilicantly differ between dillerent ownership sectors or between the years 1995 and 2002 and (ii) social networks are insignilicant in state-owned enterprises (SOEs), while they contribute signilicantly to personal income in non-SOE sectors. Our linding does not predict a smaller inequality through lower returns to power during privatization in Chinese economy.

 Keywords: income, Party membership, social networks, ownership, marketization

本文发表于CESifo Economic Studies; Sep-Dec 2009; 55, 3/4

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