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Social Protection and Migration in China: What Can Protect Migrants from Economic Uncertainty?
Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Job-related welfare entitlements are common in China. Migrants who do not hold urban registration are, in principle, not entitled to job-related welfare even if they are employees in the State sector. The official explanation is that rural-urban migrants are allocated access to farm land in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822361
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Life Satisfaction in Urban China: Components and Determinants
Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment, income, marriage, sex, health and age. Communist Party membership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703059
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Understanding Urban Wage Inequality in China 1988-2008: Evidence from Quantile Analysis
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition, finding sharp increases in inequality from 1988 to 1995 and from 2002 to 2008 largely …, industrial sector and province – have served to widened inequality. The gender gap continued to rise, as did the gap between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604099
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Growing out of Poverty: Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988–2002
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
regardless of the exact location of the poverty line. Income inequality rose from 1988 to 1995 but has been fairly constant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566831