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Wage growth and inequality in urban China 1988-2013
Gustafsson, Björn; Wan, Haiyuan - 2018
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 pair of years. Wage inequality had long been on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947049
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Why are household incomes more unequally distributed in China than in Russia?
Gustafsson, Björn; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila - 2010
Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a much smaller proportion of people living in urban areas in China are important reasons for this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009313315
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Why are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?
Gustafsson, Björn - 2010
Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a much smaller proportion of people living in urban areas in China are important reasons for this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134822
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Convergence of inequality dimensions in China : income, consumption, and wealth from 1988 to 2018
Wan, Haiyuan; Gustafsson, Björn; Wang, Yingfei - 2024
Using household data from 1988 to 2018, we confirm that the increase in income inequality in China has come to a halt in recent years but show that inequality in wealth and consumption continues to increase. We report a clear convergence of inequality across the different dimensions of income,...
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Data for studying earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty in China
Gustafsson, Björn; Li, Shi; Satō, Hiroshi - 2014
This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364972
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Inequality and income dynamics in Germany
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz; Peichl, Andreas; Schmid, Kai D.; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1593-1635
distribution of annual earnings in Germany. We find that cross‐sectional inequality rose until 2009 for men and women. After the … lower tail. We further document substantial gender differences in average earnings and inequality over the life cycle. While … for men earnings rise and inequality falls as they grow older, many women reduce working hours when starting a family such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306301
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Rank, income and income inequality in urban China
Gustafsson, Björn (contributor); Ding, Sai (contributor) - 2008
While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others attain middle rank including middle rank of professional and cadre (Kezhang). This aspect of the Chinese labor force has attracted surprisingly little attention in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003778857
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Earnings inequality
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - 2014
concerned with the distribution of wages, earnings or income and have been performed by different strands in the literature …, mainly in public and in labor economics. We summarize these strands with a special focus on earnings which itself is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010390073
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Rank, Income and Income Inequality in Urban China
Gustafsson, Björn; Sai, Ding - 2021
While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others attain middle rank including middle rank of professional and cadre (Kezhang). This aspect of the Chinese labor force has attracted surprisingly little attention in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324772
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Economic growth and child poverty reduction in Bangladesh and China
Begum, Syeda Shahanara; Deng, Quheng; Gustafsson, Björn - 2011
This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over time and across countries, are made using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009379598