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outcomes. It finds that while poverty has fallen across the region over the last two decades, inequality has increased …
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. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being reveals large influence of gender, rural residency and household income … poverty will enhance well-being in China, policies that reduce rural-urban and gender inequalities are also likely to boost …
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2013, we provide consistent estimates of the gender wage gap in urban China and investigate those factors that have …. Based on new data for 2013, however, we find that from 2007 to 2013 the gender wage gap narrowed. For 2013 we estimate the … gender wage gap at between 19 percent and 25 percent. Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions reveal that the contributions of the …
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on blood donation than community-specific inequality. …
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and the alarming inequality in China have made relative deprivation more and more intense for the Chinese population. This …
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poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … population growth rates produce better outcomes. China and India play a central role on poverty reduction and global inequality …
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its great success in poverty reduction, China has witnessed rapidly increasing income inequality which only began to …
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impact on wage inequality. We find that non-routine cognitive and interpersonal tasks have increased, while routine cognitive … tasks first increased and then declined. Occupation structural change is accompanying rising wage inequality. The wage … intensity are associated with lower wages. While the return to education has become the largest contributor to wage inequality …
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This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until...
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given level of poverty is broadly decomposed into an overall inequality component and an overall endowment component in …
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