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Life Satisfaction in Urban China: Components and Determinants
Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619834
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Growing out of poverty: trends and patterns of urban poverty in China 1988–2002
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income … Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period … 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/10005836035