[go: up one dir, main page]
IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/ijurrs/v23y1999i1p7-25.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Housing inequality in urban China in the 1990s

Author

Listed:
  • John R. Logan
  • Yanjie Bian
  • Fuqin Bian
Abstract
Access to housing of sufficient space and quality has been a central element in social stratification in urban China. We examine the sources of housing inequality in 1993 in Shanghai and Tianjin, when a market reform process had been underway in the national economy for nearly fifteen years. The Chinese housing allocation system favors people with political position and connections, those of higher socio‐economic background, and those whose work units have greater organizational authority. There is only slight evidence that market reform has undermined this stratification order. To the contrary, there are reasons to believe that in some respects inequalities rooted in socialism are strengthened by institutional changes. These conclusions are reinforced by comparison to results of analyses of income inequality in the same cities. L'accès aux logements suffisamment spacieux et de bonne qualité est un élément central de la stratification sociale en Chine urbaine. Nous examinons les origines de l'inégalité du logement en 1993 à Shangai?? et Tianjin alors qu'un processus de réforme du marché dans l'économie nationale est en cours depuis presque quinze ans. Le système d'allocation de logements favorise les personnes qui ont une position et des contacts politiques, les personnes d'un milieu socio‐économique élevé et celles des unités de travail qui ont une plus grande autorité d'organisation. Il y a peu de preuves que les réformes du marché aient ébranlé cette stratification. Au contraire, il y a des raisons de penser que certaines inégalités dont l'origine remonte au socialisme sont fortifiés par les changements institutionnels. Ces conclusions sont renforcées par la comparaison des résultats des analyses des inégalités des revenus dans les mêmes villes.

Suggested Citation

  • John R. Logan & Yanjie Bian & Fuqin Bian, 1999. "Housing inequality in urban China in the 1990s," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 23(1), pages 7-25, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ijurrs:v:23:y:1999:i:1:p:7-25
    DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.00176
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.00176
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/1468-2427.00176?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:ijurrs:v:23:y:1999:i:1:p:7-25. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0309-1317 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.