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influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for …
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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 …
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Using data from the China Household Income Project in 2013 and 2018, this paper studies relative poverty among rural … hukou holders living in urban China and urban hukou holders. People living in households with an income below a fixed … residents are deemed as relative poor. Although migrants with rural hukou living in urban China were more prone to twice poverty …
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endogeneity problem our results show that rural migrants in urban China have modest positive or zero effects on the average …
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unique dataset that provides information on both current and return migrants in rural China (RUMiC), we investigate the …
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This paper examines the effects of state sector domination on wage inequality in urban China. Using Chinese Household …
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This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China … segmented urban labor markets in China. All displaced workers have an increased likelihood of being informal, while only …
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This paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the …
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We use household surveys from 1995, 2002, and 2007 to examine how changes in job structure contributed to China …
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In the past 20 years the average real earnings of Chinese urban male workers have increased by 350 per cent. Accompanying this unprecedented growth is a considerable increase in earnings inequality. Between 1988 and 2007 the variance of log earnings increased from 0.27 to 0.48, a 78 per cent...
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