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Quheng, Deng; Gustafsson, Björn - 2006

In China hukou (the household registration system) imposes barriers on permanent migration from rural to urban areas. Using large surveys for 2002, we find that permanent migrants number about 100 million persons and constitute approximately 20 percent of all urban residents. Receiving a long...

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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011878839

Comparing Receipt of Social Assistance in Urban and Rural China and the Role of Ethnicity

Gustafsson, Björn; Ding, Sai - 2022

Dibao receipt in rural and in urban areas of China is contrasted using household data from seven province-level units. The probability of Dibao-receipt is positively related to how many persons in the household who are older, adults who do not work, and if the household head is not healthy....

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Incomplete Catching Up : Income Among Manchurian, Yi and Han People in Rural China from 2002 to 2018

Gustafsson, Björn; Zhang, Yudan - 2022

Household income per capita among the rural Yi, Manchurian ethnic minority groups and the Han majority is studied using data from the China Household Income Project 2002, 2013 and 2018. The disparity in total per capita income between the Yi and Han populations narrowed, while the average income...

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Data for Studying Earnings, the Distribution of Household Income and Poverty in China

Gustafsson, Björn - 2014

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until...

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China's Urban Poor Comparing Twice Poverty between Residents and Migrants in 2013 and 2018

Gustafsson, Björn; Ding, Sai - 2023

Using data from the China Household Income Project in 2013 and 2018, this paper studies relative poverty among rural hukou holders living in urban China and urban hukou holders. People living in households with an income below a fixed percent of the median per-capita income and wealth below the...

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New light on China's rural elites

Gustafsson, Björn; Ding, Sai - 2010

This paper analyses political elites, economic elites, hybrid elite households and non-elite households in rural China … probability of becoming an economic elite is linked to the age of the head of household and to the income level of the county …, indicating that opportunities to become an economic elite have increased over time, but in a spatially uneven way.We also …

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Data for studying earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty in China

Gustafsson, Björn; Li, Shi; Satō, Hiroshi - 2014

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China's lesser known migrants

Quheng, Deng (contributor); Gustafsson, Björn (contributor) - 2006

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003328068

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011876462