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Unemployment, earlier retirement, and changes in the gender income gap in urban China, 1995 - 2002
Li, Shi; Gustafsson, Björn - In: Inequality and public policy in China, (pp. 243-266). 2008
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Earnings inequality and the gender gap : an accounting exercise for Sweden 1975 - 1991
Gustafsson, Björn; Johansson, Mats - In: Empirical studies of income distribution, (pp. 1-30). 1999
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Earnings inequality and the gender gap : an accounting exercise for Sweden, 1975 - 1991
Gustafsson, Björn - In: Labour : review of labour economics and industrial relations 12 (1998) 4, pp. 715-744
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China's urban gender wage gap : a new direction?
Song, Jin; Sicular, Terry; Gustafsson, Björn - 2017
2013, we provide consistent estimates of the gender wage gap in urban China and investigate those factors that have …. Based on new data for 2013, however, we find that from 2007 to 2013 the gender wage gap narrowed. For 2013 we estimate the … gender wage gap at between 19 percent and 25 percent. Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions reveal that the contributions of the …
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The rise of China's global middle class in international perspective
Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn - 2021
Defining the 'global middle class' as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China's expanding middle class in international perspective. China's global middle class has grown rapidly and has...
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The rise of China's global middle class in international perspective
Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn - 2021
Defining the ‘global middle class’ as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate the size of the global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China’s expanding middle class in international perspective. China’s global middle class has grown rapidly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012591395
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The rise of China's global middle class in an international context
Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn - In: China & world economy 30 (2022) 1, pp. 5-27
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Catching up with the West : Chinese pathways to the global middle class
Gustafsson, Björn; Yang, Xiuna; Sicular, Terry - 2019
We investigate whether Chinese household incomes have caught up to those of the middle class in the developed world. Using nationwide survey data for 2002 and 2013, we find considerable catch up. Defining the global middle class as being neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate...
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China's emerging global middle class
Gustafsson, Björn; Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna - 2017
This chapter seeks to throw new light on the emergence of the Chinese economic middle class using data from the China Household Income Project from 2002, 2007, and 2013. We find that between 2002 and 2013 China's income distribution was transformed from a pyramid shape, with a majority having...
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Unequal growth : how household incomes and poverty in urban China have developed since 1988, with an emphasis on the period from 2007 to 2013
Gustafsson, Björn; Ding, Sai - 2017
This chapter investigates how household income, income inequality, and poverty among urban residents in China have developed since 1988, with an emphasis on the period from 2007 to 2013. We use data from the China Household Income Project (CHIP) to show that during a period when many countries...
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