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Financial development and the distribution of income in Latin America and the Caribbean
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Rioja, Felix - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269162
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Rural labor absorption efficiency in urban areas under different urbanization patterns and industrial structures: The case of China
Liwen, Chen; Zeng, Xiangquan; Yumei, Yang - 2011
In this paper, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate how well China's urban areas absorb migrant workers … under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-oriented BCC model to evaluate provincial … and regional rural labor absorption efficiency in mainland China. It appears that 4 out of 31 provinces and municipals are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282403
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Continental and Sub-Continental Income Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at regions defined as equivalent of continental and sub-continental levels. We investigate the economic disparity between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262022
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Regional Income Inequality in Selected Large Countries
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262053
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Migration, self-selection, and income distributions: Evidence from rural and urban China
Xing, Chunbing - 2010
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/10010269876
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The Role of China's Household Registration System in the Urban-Rural Income Differential
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest; Moon, Soojae - 2017
rural residents. In this paper we focus on China's household registration system, or "hukou", as a potential source of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744734
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Analysis of the determinants of income and income gap between urban and rural China
Su, Biwei; Heshmati, Almas - 2013
-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/10010291443
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Analysis of the Determinants of Income and Income Gap between Urban and Rural China
Su, Biwei; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
-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/10010764585
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Aggregate savings and external imbalances in China
Yang, Dennis Tao - 2012
Over the last decade, the internal and external macroeconomic imbalances in China have risen to unprecedented levels …. In 2008, China's national savings rate soared to over 53 percent of its GDP, whereas its current account surplus exceeded …, the accession of China to the World Trade Organization has dramatically amplified the effects of these structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289985
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Russian Cities in Transition : The Impact of Market Forces in the 1990s
Stuart, Robert C.; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
This paper analyses Russian city growth during the command and transition eras. Our main focus is on understanding the extent to which market forces are replacing command forces, and the resulting changes in Russian city growth patterns. We examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261899