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“Leftist”, “Rightist” and Intermediate Decompositions of Poverty: Variations with an Application to China from 1990 to 2003
Bresson, Florent; Labar, Kelly - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2007
This paper investigates the influence of invariance axioms in the decomposition of observed poverty variations into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413418
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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
in rural areas, but it has not reduced poverty that much, not least because of how it is administered. Moreover, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480479
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Inequality and Poverty in China during Reform
Wang, Sangui; Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; Giles, John - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2007
This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality and poverty in China from 1987 to 2002 … agricultural income from the mid-1990s onward. Poverty persists, and tied in part to slow growth in agricultural commodity prices … restructuring have fueled the growth in inequality within urban areas. Poverty levels, however, are very low. China should give more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696363
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Relative concerns of rural-to-urban migrants in China
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 2, pp. 421-441
As their environment changes, migrants constitute an interesting group to study the effect of relative income on subjective well-being. This paper focuses on the huge population of rural-to-urban migrants in China. Using a novel dataset, we find that the well-being of migrants depends on several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011048076
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Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Geary Institute, University College Dublin - 2011
How the income of "relevant others" affects well-being has received renewed interest in the recent literature using subjective data. Migrants constitutes a par- ticularly interesting group to study this question: as they changed environment, they are likely to be concerned by several potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008828359
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Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
Alpaslan, AKAY; Olivier, BARGAIN; ZIMMERMANN Klaus F. - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2011
How the income of "relevant others" a¤ects well-being has received renewed interest in the recent literature using subjective data. Migrants constitutes a particularly interesting group to study this question: as they changed environment, they are likely to be concerned by several potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836769
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Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
As their environment changes, migrants constitute an interesting group to study the effect of relative income on subjective well-being. This paper focuses on the huge population of rural-to-urban migrants in China. Using a novel dataset, we find that the well-being of migrants depends on several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839274
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Chronic and Transient Poverty: Measurement and Estimation, with Evidence from China
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araaryand, Abdelkrim; Giles, John - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006
The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach … to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide corrections for the statistical biases … introduced when using a small number of periods to estimate the importance of vulnerability and transient poverty. Third, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413389
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Relative income, network interactions and social stigma
Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xiaobo - Leibniz-Institut für Agrarentwicklung in … - 2010
Blood donation with compensation is considered as a social stigma. However, more people in the reference group donate blood often leads to less moral concern and more followers. Therefore, the behavior is likely to be influenced through one's interactions with neighbors, friends and relatives....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370726
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Chronic and Transient Poverty: Measurement and Estimation, with Evidence from China
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araar, Abdelkrim; Giles, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach … to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide corrections for the statistical biases … introduced when using a small number of periods to estimate the importance of vulnerability and transient poverty. Third, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763836