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Economic transformation and the gender earnings gap in urban China
Gustafsson, Björn; Li, Shi - In: Journal of population economics 13 (2000) 2, pp. 305-329
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Changes in Russian poverty during transition as assessed from microdata from the city of Taganrog
Gustafsson, Björn; Nivorozhkina, Ludmilla - In: The economics of transition 12 (2004) 4, pp. 747-776
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Economic Transformation and the Gender Earnings Gap in Urban China
Gustafsson, Björn; Shi, Li - 2014
The gender wage gap and its development in urban China is analysed utilising two large scale surveys covering 10 provinces for the years 1988 and 1995. The results indicate that from an international perspective, the gender wage gap in urban China appears to be relatively small. It is, however,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014151759
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Changes in Russian Poverty During Transition as Assessed from Microdata from the City of Taganrog
Gustafsson, Björn; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila - 2014
The literature lacks solid assessments of poverty in Russia under transition compared to the poverty conditions at the onset of transition. This motivates us to analyse survey data from the city of Taganrog collected in similar manners for 1989 and 2000. Under all assumptions applied, we find...
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Economic transformation and the gender earnings gap in urban China
Gustafsson, Björn; Li, Shi - In: Global Labour in Distress, Volume II : Earnings, …, (pp. 115-146). 2022
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Economic transformation and income distribution in China over three decades
Cai, Meng; Gustafsson, Björn; Knight, John B. - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2023
It is arguable that the most important event in the world economy in recent decades has been the rise of China, from being on a par with Sub Sahara Africa at the start of economic reform to being an economic superpower today. That rise remains under-researched. Moreover, the great structural...
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Sweden's pensioners: how they have fared in the roller coaster ride through the past decade and a half of deep recession and economic exuberance
Gustafsson, Björn; Johansson, Mats; Palmer, Edward - 2007
This study analyses the development of the economic well-being of the elderly in Sweden since 1990 - a period … Survey. The elderly were not isolated as pensions were cut, full indexation abandoned and taxes increased during Sweden … elderly. Overall, poverty among the elderly in Sweden remains low in an international perspective and our analysis leads us to …
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If Seebohm Rowntree had studied Sweden: How poverty changed in the city of Göteborg from 1925 to 2003
Gustafsson, Björn; Jansson, Birgitta - 2010
This paper investigates the development of poverty in Sweden using micro data derived from tax files for the city of … of present-day Sweden: the dual earner system. …
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Economic and ethnic polarisation among children in Sweden's three metropolitan areas
Biterman, Danuta; Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - 2007
metropolitan regions of Sweden by using a relative new operationalization of the neighbourhood concept. Neighbourhoods are …
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Neighbourhood child poverty in Sweden
Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - 2010
This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden …
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