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 …

Intergenerational income elasticities are estimated using samples for urban China (covering many cities) for the years … income link between sons and fathers in urban China appears to be not very different from what has been reported for …

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The …

Since the second half of the 1990s economic restructuring in urban China has led to widespread joblessness and income … survey covering large parts of urban China in 2002, we investigate factors affecting receipt and how receipt affects urban … while having been sent to rural China during the Cultural Revolution increases it. For some types of households, receipt of …

Subjective Poverty Line methodology is applied to rural China 2002 using a sample from 22 provinces. Respondents were … lives. The findings provide an argument for increasing the official poverty line for China as average household income … increases. Poverty in rural China is disproportionally concentrated to the western regions and to poor counties. Most of rural …

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 …

In China hukou (the household registration system) imposes barriers on permanent migration from rural to urban areas … counterparts left behind in rural China. The probability of becoming a permanent migrant is positively related to parental …

This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and … 2013 urban residents in China changed their assessment of how much money that is necessary. Data from the China Household … urban China was more rapid in the middle segments of the income distribution that at it's lower segments. In 2013, at least …

neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate that China's global middle class grew rapidly after 2002, reaching …

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 …