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India. Using primary survey data, we find more program inefficiencies and leakages in village councils reserved for women …
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Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Public benefits, access to good quality housing, schools … extraordinary surge of migration within China. In this study of interprovincial Chinese migration, we address two questions. First …
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incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial …
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, especially in societies with highly skewed distribution of ownership. We however argue that the success of CG reform would, in …
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. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are aging and migration related in post-reform China? We argue that there …China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily … empirically the relationship between origin age distribution and interprovincial migration in China using province-level census …
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This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another …
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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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China has achieved tremendous economic progress in the last three decades, but there is much work to be done to make … in striking the right balance in terms of speed and coordination of reforms. We argue that China's current stage of …
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This paper argues that after a quarter century of sharp and sustained increase, Chinese inequality is now plateauing and even turning down. The argument is made using a range of data sources and a range of measures and perspectives on inequality. The evolution of inequality is further examined...
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Post-reform China has been experiencing two major demographic changes, an extraordinary amount of internal migration … of a transition economy. We find that shifts in China's age distribution have generated significant changes in the …
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