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 … growing more rapidly. The trend whereby fewer persons in urban China have incomes that are lower than the poverty line …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper …

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 rather low income, to a more olive shape, as the middle class emerged …. Defining "middle class" as having an income high enough not to be regarded as poor but also low enough not to be regarded as …

global middle class in the US and similar in size to that in Europe. Cross-country analysis of the relationship between the …

global middle class in the US and similar in size to that in Europe. Cross-country analysis of the relationship between the …

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 same fixed percent of the median per-capita wealth among urban …