This paper investigates how ethnic minorities in rural China are faring compared with the ethnic majority. The village … is the unit of analysis and large surveys for 2002 are used. Minority villages in northeast China are found to have a … north- and particularly the southwest. Low village income results in long-distance migration for many ethnic minorities, but …

particular interest to economists, namely income and wealth and (b) to discuss issues in relation to their use, in particular … with respect to missing data. We describe how the income and wealth data were collected. We assess the quality of the … consider the relationship between income/wealth and life satisfaction, another variable captured in TILDA. We find that income …

countries wealth affects life satisfaction more than income. In the countries for which consumption data are available (Britain …, results from panel regression fixed effects models indicate that changes in wealth, income and consumption all produce … with household income. The paper uses household economic panel data from five countries – Australia, Britain, Germany …

The accepted view among psychologists and economists alike is that household income has statistically significant but … only small effects on measures of subjective well-being. Income, however, is clearly an imperfect measure of the economic … circumstances of households. Using data drawn from the 2001 and 2002 waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia …

investigates this issue. It is found that households with above average income have accumulated more wealth than their poorer …Under socialism it was neither possible nor necessary to accumulate significant levels of personal wealth. The … acceleration of economic reform in the last decade, however, has brought dramatic increases in income and investment opportunities …

of China is disadvantaged compared to the Han majority as regards length of education and household per capita wealth …. Yet there is no gap in average disposable income between the two ethnic groups and poverty rates are very similar. This … paradox is due to members of Hui households earning more income outside the farm than members of Han households. Particularly …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty … 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 …

among workers of middle rank. Mean income and household wealth per capita of highly-ranked workers developed more favorably …While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others … of the urban population in work-active ages and use data from the Chinese Income Project (CHIP) covering eastern, central …

Long term trends in happiness and income are not related; short term fluctuations in happiness and income are … striking contradiction is China where, despite a fourfold multiplication in two decades in real GDP per capita from a low …

jointly contributed to the upsurge in aggregate savings in China in the past two decades. Government policies to rebalance the …