Xiaogang Wu
Funded Research:
Educational Inequalities in reform-era China, 1990-2000 (HKUST)
Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan.
Assistant Professor, Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Associate Director, Center for Spatial and Social Demographics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Ph.D., UCLA
Dr. Wu's research interests include internal migration from rural to urban areas in China; social stratification and mobility in state socialist and post-socialist societies; labor markets issues in transition economies; education and social inequality; and the change of residential patterns in Shanghai.
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
Xie, Yu, and Xiaogang Wu. 2008. "Danwei Profitability and Earnings Inequality in Urban China." The China Quarterly, 195 : 558-581. DOI:10.1017/S0305741008000775. Licensed Access.
Wu, Xiaogang, and Donald J. Treiman . 2007. "Inequality and equality under Chinese socialism: the Hukou system and intergenerational occupational mobility." American Journal of Sociology, 113(2): 415–45. DOI:10.1086/518905. Licensed Access.
Wu, Xiaogang. 2006. "Communist Cadres and Market Opportunities: Entry into Self-employment in China, 1978-1996." Social Forces, 85(1): 389-411.
Xie, Yu, and Xiaogang Wu. 2005. "Reply to Market premium, social process, and statisticism." American Sociological Review, 70(5): 865-870.
Wu, Xiaogang, and Donald J. Treiman. 2004. "The Household Registration System and Social Stratification in China: 1955-1996." Demography , 41(2): 363-384.
PSC Reports
Wu, Xiaogang. 2007. "Economic Transition, School Expansion, and Educational Inequality in China, 1990-2000." PSC Research Report No. 07-627. September 2007. Abstract. PDF.
Wu, Xiaogang. 2007. "Family Resources and Educational Stratification: The Case of Hong Kong, 1981-2001." PSC Research Report No. 07-624. May 2007. Abstract. PDF.
Wu, Xiaogang. 2006. "Socialist Workers in the Market Transition: Voluntary and Involuntary Job Mobility and Earnings Inequality in Urban China, 1993-2000." PSC Research Report No. 06-613. December 2006. Abstract. PDF.
Wu, Xiaogang, and Donald Treiman. 2006. "Inequality and Equality under a State Socialist Regime: Occupational Mobility in Contemporary China." PSC Research Report No. 06-598. April 2006. Abstract. PDF.
Wu, Xiaogang. 2005. "Registration Status, Labor Migration, and Socioeconomic Attainment in China’s Segmented Labor Markets." PSC Research Report No. 05-579. July 2005. Abstract. PDF.
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