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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011878837
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011878838
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The increasing inequality of wealth in China, 2002-2013
Knight, John B.; Li, Shi; Wan, Haiyuan - 2017
The inequality of wealth in China has increased rapidly in recent years. Prior to 1978 all Chinese households possessed … negligible wealth. China therefore presents a fascinating case study of how inequality of household wealth increases as economic … decomposed using data from two national sample surveys of the China Household Income Project (CHIP) relating to 2002 and 2013 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011878840
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011878844