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Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Urban China, 1986-2000
Meng, Xin; Gregory, Robert; Wang, Youjuan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822037
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Regional Price Differences in Urban China 1986-2001: Estimation and Implication
Gong, Cathy Honge; Meng, Xin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Despite the intensive efforts made by economists to examine regional income inequality in China, limited attention has … in urban China over the period 1986 to 2001. Spatial Price Index (SPI) is normally calculated using the Basket Cost … those obtained from the Basket Cost method. Further, regional price variations in urban China increased significantly during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822212
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How Much Do We Know about the Impact of the Economic Downturn on the Employment of Migrants?
Meng, Xin; Kong, Sherry Tao; Zhang, Dandan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The employment shock of late 2008 in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) may have been a product of three different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363347
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Migrant Entrepreneurs and Credit Constraints under Labour Market Discrimination
Frijters, Paul; Kong, Tao; Meng, Xin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
similar in terms of risk taking preferences and network size. Want-to-be entrepreneurs however suffer from credit constraints …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294843
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Stunting and Selection Effects of Famine: A Case Study of the Great Chinese Famine
Ggens, Tue; Meng, Xin; Vaithianathan, Rhema - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2010
Many developing countries experience famine. If survival is related to height, the increasingly common practice of using height as a measure of well-being may be misleading. We devise a novel method for disentangling the stunting from the selection effects of famine. Using data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009352204
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Labour Market Impact of Large Scale Internal Migration on Chinese Urban 'Native' Workers
Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
endogeneity problem our results show that rural migrants in urban China have modest positive or zero effects on the average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683653
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Stunting and Selection Effects of Famine: A Case Study of the Great Chinese Famine
Ggens, Tue; Meng, Xin; Vaithianathan, Rhema - Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic … - 2010
Many developing countries experience famine. If survival is related to height, the increasingly common practice of using height as a measure of well-being may be misleading. We devise a novel method for disentangling the stunting from the selection effects of famine. Using data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752085
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Economic reform, education expansion, and earnings inequality for urban males in China, 1988–2009
Meng, Xin; Shen, Kailing; Xue, Sen - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 1, pp. 227-244
In the past 20 or so years the average real earnings of Chinese urban male workers have increased by 350%. Accompanying this unprecedented growth is a considerable increase in earnings inequality. Between 1988 and 2009 the variance of log earnings increased from 0.28 to 0.54, a 94% increase....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010662541
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Stunting and selection effects of famine: A case study of the Great Chinese Famine
Gørgens, Tue; Meng, Xin; Vaithianathan, Rhema - In: Journal of Development Economics 97 (2012) 1, pp. 99-111
Many developing countries experience famine. If survival is related to height, the increasingly common practice of using height as a measure of well-being may be misleading. We devise a novel method for disentangling the stunting from the selection effects of famine. Using data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011065901
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Are optimistic expectations keeping the Chinese happy?
Frijters, Paul; Liu, Amy Y.C.; Meng, Xin - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 1, pp. 159-171
In this paper we study the effect of optimistic income expectations on life satisfaction amongst the Chinese population. Using a large scale household survey conducted in 2002 we find that the level of optimism about the future is particularly strong in the countryside and amongst rural-to-urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010597452