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Data for Studying Earnings, the Distribution of Household Income and Poverty in China

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Sato, Hiroshi - 2014

in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and … researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until recently had a dual system of household surveys - one rural and one urban …

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Inequality in China: Development, transition, and policy

Li, Shi; Sicular, Terry; Tarp, Finn - 2018

In this paper we describe the major trends in China's income inequality over the past 40 years and explain them as the …

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Changing trends in China's inequality: Key issues and main findings

Sicular, Terry; Li, Shi; Yue, Ximing; Sato, Hiroshi - 2017

which share in common their use of household data from the latest round of the China Household Income Project (CHIP) survey … to analyze recent trends in inequality in China. We begin with an overview of relevant economic and policy developments … in China and discuss data and measurement issues. We discuss our central estimates of national income inequality based on …

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Overview: Incomes and inequality in China, 2007-2013

Luo, Chuliang; Sicular, Terry; Li, Shi - 2017

In this chapter we examine trends in China's household incomes, income distribution and inequality for China as a whole …

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Consumption inequality in urban China, 1995-2013

Xia, Qingjie; Li, Shi; Song, Lina - 2017

We use CHIP data from 1995, 2002, and 2013 to investigate inequality in urban household consumption expenditures. Overall inequality in urban household consumption expenditures measured by the Gini coefficient decreased slightly from 0.33 in 1995 to 0.32 in 2002, but it increased to 0.36 in...

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Changes in the distribution of wealth in China, 1995 - 2002

Li, Shi; Zhao, Renwei - 2007

his paper investigates some major changes in the wealth distribution in China using the data from two national … distribution in China as a whole became much more unequal in 2002 than it was in 1995. The housing reform, in which public …

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