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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...
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Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income tax record data in combination with survey data is a potential approach to address the problem; we consider here the UK's pioneering 'SPI adjustment' method that implements...
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Federated States of Micronesia's (FSM) Social Security office are matched to the FSM Census data for the wage sector employed. I …
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Income is an important correlate for numerous phenomena in the social sciences. But many surveys collect data with just a single question covering all forms of income. This raises issues of quality, and these are heightened when individuals are asked about the household total rather than own...
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Socio-economic inequality is on the rise in major European cities as are the worries about that, since this development is seen as threatening social cohesion and stability. Surprisingly, relatively little is known about the spatial dimensions of rising socioeconomic inequality. This paper...
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The authors explore unique complete-count data from the 1930 Census in which a respondent's race was assigned by … enumerators and "Mexican" was one of the possible responses. Census enumerators frequently and selectively assigned a non …'s socioeconomic attainment. The propensity for Census enumerators to identify Mexican Americans as white varied enormously across U …
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and informal sector employees in Tajikistan for 2007. Using the quantile regression decomposition technique proposed by … seems to be the case that the informal employment in Tajikistan is the main source of income. -- formal/informal employment …
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an imperfect trade-off. Tajikistan possesses both a very large informal sector and extensive international emigration …. Furthermore, Tajikistan's professional workers ability to engage in informal activities enables them to forgo migration, while low … ; Tajikistan …
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Women who want to work often face many more hurdles than men. This is true in Tajikistan where there is a large gender … education and migration have a significant association with the gender gap in labour force participation in Tajikistan …. International emigration from Tajikistan, in which approximately 93.5% of the participants are men, reduces labour force …
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behind in Tajikistan. Using the control function approach, we show that, contrary to some existing evidence, there is no … "dependency" effect of remittances. Our results show that remittances received by households in Tajikistan have an important … the growth and development in Tajikistan. The results obtained are likely to have policy implications for other developing …
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