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Urban consumption inequality in China, 1995-2013
Xia, Qingjie; Li, Shi; Song, Lina - 2017
We use 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall … inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini coefficient slightly decreases from 0.33 in 1995 to 0 …, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality increases all the time. Besides, the inequality of basic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011762218
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Informal Employment in China: Trends, Patterns and Determinants of Entry
Liang, Zhe; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina - 2016
We empirically deconstruct informal employment in China into private business owners and casual workers without job contracts. Survey data from 2007 and 2013 document a rise in informal employment to the point where it exceeds formal employment, potentially an unintended consequence of the 2008...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525070
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Informal employment in China : trends, patterns and determinants of entry
Liang, Zhe; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina - 2016
We empirically deconstruct informal employment in China into private business owners and casual workers without job contracts. Survey data from 2007 and 2013 document a rise in informal employment to the point where it exceeds formal employment, potentially an unintended consequence of the 2008...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523165
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Informal Employment in China : Trends, Patterns and Determinants of Entry
Liang, Zhe - 2016
We empirically deconstruct informal employment in China into private business owners and casual workers without job contracts. Survey data from 2007 and 2013 document a rise in informal employment to the point where it exceeds formal employment, potentially an unintended consequence of the 2008...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984850
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Household decision making and the influence of spouses' income, education, and communist party membership: a field experiment in rural China
Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - 2009
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses' individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269056
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Group Decision Making Under Risk: An Experiment with Student Couples
He, Haoran; Martinsson, Peter; Sutter, Matthias - 2011
risk-neutrality than single partners' decisions. This finding is similar to earlier experiments with randomly assigned …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294834
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Household decision making and the influence of spouses? income, education, and communist party membership: A field experiment in rural China
Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - 2009
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses' individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294839
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Household decision making and the influence of spouses’ income, education, and communist party membership: A field experiment in rural China
Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses’ individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771209
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Household decision making and the influence of spouses? income, education, and communist party membership: A field experiment in rural China
Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - Institut für Finanzwissenschaft, Fakultät für … - 2009
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses? individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005581169
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Household Decision Making and the Influence of Spouses' Income, Education, and Communist Party Membership: A Field Experiment in Rural China
Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses' individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005070428