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Based on China Household Income Project rural data, this paper aims to study the changes of rural household income … mobility in transitional China. The results show that with the economic reform and development, income mobility between 2007 …
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. The paper ends with an empirical illustration comparing rural and urban and areas in the People's Republic of China and …
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This paper examines the evolution of China's industrial and occupational structure in the last two decades and its …
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between inequality and growth via growth and inequality shocks for two large economies, China and the USA, for the years 1979 …
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We analyse income and expenditure distribution in China in a comparative perspective with India. These countries … expenditure in India, especially at the top of the distribution. Both types of inequality are similar in China, although … expenditure is more unequally distributed than income in urban areas. China has a much stronger correlation in individual ranks …
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With the data on the top incomes collected from different sources, we combine the samples of the top incomes with a household survey to investigate changes in the income distribution with and without the top incomes. The Gini coefficient of income inequality using household survey data is 0.464...
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By using the five waves of the China Household Income Project surveys conducted during 1988-2013, this paper … investigates long-term changes in income inequality and poverty in China. Income inequality rose before 2007 and then fell by a … also indicates a considerable poverty reduction during China's economic transition, mainly because of the growth effect of …
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We investigate the evolution of wage levels, wage inequality, and wage determinants among urban residents in China … using China Household Income Project data from 1988, 1995, 2002, 2007, and 2013. Average wage grew impressively between each … thereafter - a process that came to a halt in 2007. During the period in which China was a planned economy the gender wage gap …
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In this paper we describe the major trends in China's income inequality over the past 40 years and explain them as the …
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In this paper, we analyse the relationship between China's structural transformation and the inclusiveness of its … economic growth. China's economy has undergone significant structural changes since it initiated the economic reforms in 1978 … its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …
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