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Urban-rural disparities of child health and nutritional status in China from 1989 to 2006
Liu, Hong; Fang, Hai; Zhao, Zhong - 2012
This paper analyzes urban-rural disparities of China's child health and nutritional status using the China Health and … children in China as well as how such disparities have changed during the period 1989-2006. The results show that on average … also reduced during this period. -- child ; health and nutritional status ; urban-rural disparities ; China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537233
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Why are household incomes more unequally distributed in China than in Russia?
Gustafsson, Björn; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila - 2010
Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent … urban areas in China are important reasons for this cross-country difference in inequality. Wage is a more non …-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009313315
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Inequality in Vietnamese urban-rural living standards, 1993 - 2006
Le, Huong Thu; Booth, Alison L. - 2010
Using data from five waves of the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, we find evidence of significant urban-rural expenditure inequality. Urban-rural inequality in Vietnam increased dramatically from 1993 to 1998, and peaked in 2002 before reducing slightly in 2004, and significantly in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975202
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Occupational dualism and intergenerational educational mobility in the rural economy: evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Jiang, Yajing; … - 2020
farm-nonfarm occupational dualism and provides a comparative analysis of rural China and rural India. The model builds a … India faced lower educational mobility compared with the sons in rural China in the 1970s to 1990s. To understand the role … solely to genetic correlations in China, but not in India. Father's nonfarm occupation was complementary to his education in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257812
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Cyclical movements in unemployment and informality in developing countries
Bosch, Mariano (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper analyzes the cyclical properties of worker flows in Brazil and Mexico, two important developing countries with large unregulated or informalʺ sectors. It generates three stylized facts that are critical to the accurate modeling of the sector and which suggest the need to rethink the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003719628
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Analysis of the determinants of income and income gap between urban and rural China
Su, Biwei; Heshmati, Almas - 2013
-rural income inequality in China. OLS, conditional quantile regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition methods are used to analyze … four waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) household data. Results show that education and occupation are … ; CHNS household data ; China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696887
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The effect of employment protection legislation and financial market imperfections on investment : evidence from a firm-level panel of EU countries
Cingano, Federico; Leonardi, Marco; Messina, Julián; … - 2009
This paper analyzes the joint effect of EPL and financial market imperfections on investment, capital-labour substitution, labour productivity and job reallocation in a cross-country framework. In the spirit of Rajan and Zingales (1998) and Ciccone and Papaioannou (2006), we exploit variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832294
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Urban-rural consumption inequality in China from 1988 to 2002 : evidence from quantile regression decomposition
Qu, Zhaopeng (contributor); Zhao, Zhong (contributor) - 2008
One of the most notable social phenomena in China is the large urban-rural disparity. There are many studies of it, but … and rural households in China from 1988 to 2002. Our results suggest that low quantiles are associated with large … ; consumption ; quantile regression decomposition ; China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003752846
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Do primary healthcare facilities in more remote areas provide more medical services? : spatial evidence from rural Western China
Shen, Chi; Lai, Sha; Deng, Qiwei; Cao, Dan; Zhao, Dantong; … - 2023
Primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in China have experienced a sizable decline in medical services in recent years …. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on the differential patterns of medical services … provider in China, we applied a multilevel linear model and a geographically weighted regression to examine spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014318198
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The post-unification German labor market
Bonin, Holger; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000
This study surveys the development of the East German labor market after the unification of Germany. We explain that in the last decade, East Germans were faced with very high levels of joblessness that considering labor market exits and active labor market policy, are only partly reported as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336858