. Yet there is no gap in average disposable income between the two ethnic groups and poverty rates are very similar. This … of China is disadvantaged compared to the Han majority as regards length of education and household per capita wealth … paradox is due to members of Hui households earning more income outside the farm than members of Han households. Particularly …

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 …

erences in the distribution of income and wages using county-level data from Germany. Chapter 2 analyzes the impact of the so …-called Hartz reforms on income inequality in German regions. Chapter 3 investigates the long-term effect of university openings on … the wage distribution in the surrounding area. Chapters 4 and 5 turn to the political consequences of regional income …

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 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 analyses regional data on inequality and poverty in Russia during 1994-2000 using published series from the … an internationally high level. Based on these two findings, the paper projects dynamics of inequality and poverty in … will become virtually free of poverty. Finally, the paper relates fluctuations in inequality within regions to a set of …

of the country's population. We demonstrate that there is an important ethnic gap in the poverty levels of the Xhosa and …

response to both poverty and immigration, while low income respondents desire less public expenditure on education due to … of redistributive policies are affected by poverty and immigration. We find that while information about poverty has no … detectable impact on the progressivity of the respondents' demanded income tax schedule, information about immigration has a …

The European 2020 Strategy has launched a novel indicator for monitoring poverty reduction over the current decade …, simultaneously taking into account income, material deprivation and work intensity. The present paper uses this new indicator as a … poverty and social exclusion among immigrants. It is argued that the analytical insight and internal consistency of the new …

This study aimed to identify the major factors underlying the large discrepancy in poverty levels between two Brazilian … these characteristics differentially impact on the risk of poverty in each group. A detailed decomposition of both effects … explains a large part of the discrepancy in poverty levels, with education and labor variables of household members explaining …