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Migration, Self-Selection, and Income Distributions : Evidence from Rural and Urban China
Xing, Chunbing - 2014
As massive rural residents leave their home countryside for better employment, migration has profound effects on income distributions such as rural-urban income gap and inequalities within rural or urban areas. The nature of the effects depends crucially on who are migrating and their migrating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069680
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Regional Disparities and Inequality of Opportunity : The Case of Italy
Checchi, Daniele - 2005
In this paper we provide a new methodology to measure opportunity inequality and to decompose overall inequality in an quot;ethically offensivequot; and an quot;ethically acceptablequot; part. Moreover, we provide some empirical applications of these new evaluation tools: in the first exercise,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012784055
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Evolution of Inequality in Nigeria : A Tale of Falling Inequality, Rising Poverty and Regional Heterogeneity
Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2023
Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only the upper class has benefited from economic growth in Nigeria over time. The disconnect between these findings and anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264269
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Spatial Income Inequality in India, 1993-2011 : A District Level Decomposition
Azam, Mehtabul - 2016
Using nationally representative household survey data, and district and state as two levels of aggregation, we examine role of individual and geographical factors in determining the level and the change in income inequality in India. We find that between-state income differences account for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993930
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Urban-Rural Consumption Inequality in China from 1988 to 2002 : Evidence from Quantile Regression Decomposition
Qu, Zhaopeng (Frank); Zhao, Zhong - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325009
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Financial Development and the Distribution of Income in Latin America and the Caribbean
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo J.; Rioja, Felix K. - 2021
One of the central concerns in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has been the reduction of poverty and inequality so prevalent in the continent. Using large world samples, the literature has found that financial development increases economic growth, increases the income of the poor, and...
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Can Educational Expansion Improve Income Inequality in China? Evidences from the Chns 1997 and 2006 Data
Ning, Guangjie - 2010
Rapid education expansion and rising income inequality are two striking phenomena occurring in China during the … transitional period. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data collected in 1997 and 2006, this paper studies how … effect. In explaining the earning gap in China, the price effect is more important than the population effect. The labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138684
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Analysis of the Determinants of Income and Income Gap between Urban and Rural China
Su, Biwei - 2014
-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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064627
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Are Urban-Rural Welfare Differences Growing in India?
Azam, Mehtabul - 2017
Using data from the large scale consumption expenditure surveys collected by Indian National Sample Survey Organization, we examine the urban-rural welfare gap in India in 1983, 1993-94, 2004-05, and 2011-12 across the entire distribution. Our main measure of welfare is spatially adjusted per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942118
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Explaining Regional Disparities in Housing Prices Across German Districts
Brausewetter, Lars; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Trunzer, Johannes - 2022
Over the last decade, German housing prices have increased unprecedentedly. Drawing on quality-adjusted housing price data at the district level, we document large and increasing regional disparities: growth rates were higher in 1) the largest seven cities, 2) districts located in the south, and...
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