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We use household surveys from 1995,2002,and 2007 to examine how changes in job structure contributed to China's rising urban wage inequality,considering three job characteristics:occupation,industry,and firm ownership.The explanatory power of job structure for wage inequality increased between 1995 and 2007.Both the change in relative number of jobs (composition effect)and the change in between-job and within-job wage gaps (price effect)contributed to rising wage inequality.Price effect was the major contributor,whereas composition effect played a larger role in the 1995-2002 period than in the 2002-2007 period,and at the lower-half distribution.Between-job inequality played a major role in the first period,and within-job inequality played a major role in the second period.Our results suggest that both technological change and institutional features influence job structure and wage inequality.