Since the second half of the 1990s economic restructuring in urban China has led to widespread joblessness and income … survey covering large parts of urban China in 2002, we investigate factors affecting receipt and how receipt affects urban … while having been sent to rural China during the Cultural Revolution increases it. For some types of households, receipt of …

Chapter from: 'Rising Inequality in China: Challenge to a Harmonious Society', edited by Shi Li, Hiroshi Sato and Terry …

Chapter from: 'Rising Inequality in China: Challenge to a Harmonious Society', edited by Shi Li, Hiroshi Sato and Terry …

Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent … urban areas in China are important reasons for this cross-country difference in inequality. Wage is a more non …-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers …

Using new household survey data for 1995 and 2002, we investigate the size of China’s urban-rural income gap, the gap …’s contribution to overall inequality in China, and the factors underlying the gap. Our analysis improves on past estimates by using a … substantially reduce China’s urban-rural income gap and its contribution to inequality. Nevertheless, the gap remains large and has …

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. 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 been catching up with that in developed countries. By 2018 China …'s global middle class constituted 25 percent of China's population; in absolute size it was nearly double the size of the …

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 … rich if living in a high-income country, we find that the share of China's population that was middle class was extremely …

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 …, household incomes in urban China were growing by an average of 7 percent per annum. However, unlike during previous periods …

Using data from the urban household surveys of the China Household Income Project for the years 1995, 2002, 2007 and … 2013, we provide consistent estimates of the gender wage gap in urban China and investigate those factors that have …