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We analyse income and expenditure distribution in China in a comparative perspective with India. These countries represent extreme cases in the relationship of inequality to both wellbeing indicators. Income is more highly concentrated than expenditure in India, especially at the top of the...
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We use CHIP data from 1995, 2002, and 2013 to investigate inequality in urban household consumption expenditures …. Overall inequality in urban household consumption expenditures measured by the Gini coefficient decreased slightly from 0 … to a greater extent. However, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality always increased. In …
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We use 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall … inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini coefficient slightly decreases from 0.33 in 1995 to 0 …, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality increases all the time. Besides, the inequality of basic …
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We use CHIP data from 1995, 2002, and 2013 to investigate inequality in urban household consumption expenditures …. Overall inequality in urban household consumption expenditures measured by the Gini coefficient decreased slightly from 0 … to a greater extent. However, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality always increased. In …
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subcategories such as cereals, or meat and fish, and other consumption categories such as alcohol and tobacco, medical, and … ?consumption expenditure patterns. We find some differences in consumption patterns which relate to differences in gender of …
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most of them focus on income or earnings inequality. In this paper, we investigate the consumption disparity between urban … consumption disparity. The price effect is the dominant factor for the urban-rural consumption disparity. This disparity increased … this increase was mainly from the higher growth rate of urban household consumption. Our results also suggest that rural …
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In this paper, we examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of households in rural … China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and … that this effect is stronger for poorer households within villages. Household income per capita and non-durable consumption …
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