Wang, Qingbin; Shi, Guanming; Zheng, Yi - In: Applied Economics Letters 9 (2002) 15, pp. 989-991
The paper examines the changes in income inequality and welfare in urban China from 1981 to 1999. While the Lorenz curves estimated using Kakwani's interpolation method indicate that the level of income inequality in urban China has increased significantly since 1981, welfare comparisons based...