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Dibao receipt in rural and in urban areas of China is contrasted using household data from seven province-level units … not work, and if the household head is not healthy. Means testing of household income is more stringent in urban areas … while low household wealth is more important for Dibao-receipt in rural areas. In rural China, membership of the Communist …
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data from the China Household Income Project 2002, 2013 and 2018. The disparity in total per capita income between the Yi … true that the reliance on agricultural income among the Yi became less extreme as wage employment and migration increased …Household income per capita among the rural Yi, Manchurian ethnic minority groups and the Han majority is studied using …
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Ethnic groups tend to agglomerate and assemble, mostly in urban areas. While ethnic clustering is critically debated in societies and the consequences for economic outcomes are under debate in research, the process is not yet well understood. A separate literature has also examined the cultural...
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This paper explores the relationship between residential proximity of individuals from the same ethnic group and the probability of finding a job through social networks, relative to other search methods. Using individual-level data from the UK Labour Force survey and spatial statistics...
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The role of ethnic clustering in ethnic identity formation has remained unexplored, mainly due to missing detailed data. This study closes the knowledge gap for Germany by employing a unique combination of datasets, the survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and disaggregated...
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The role of ethnic clustering in ethnic identity formation has remained unexplored, mainly due to missing detailed data. This study closes the knowledge gap for Germany by employing a unique combination of datasets, the survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and disaggregated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377442
minority concentration or poverty neighbourhood, they are more likely to end up in another minority concentration or poverty …
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Disparities in length of schooling between the largest Muslim minority in China, the Hui, and the Han majority are … education and income is weaker. We also report that Hui parents spend fewer resources on education than Han parents and that …
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Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People's Republic of China …, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions …
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This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … corrected impact is shown to be three to five times larger for income and two to three times larger for poverty than is obtained … from standard analysis. Second, existing studies examine migration's impact on the poverty of the entire sample. However …
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