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Socio-Economic Groups, Individual and Social Mobilities : An Axiomatic Framework and the Chinese Society
Liu, Lezheng - 2015
A society is composed of different socio-economic groups. At a given time, individuals in the society can be classified into different such groups. With the change of time, individuals can move across different groups. Social mobility is viewed as an aggregation of such individual movements...
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Rural household income mobility in transitional China : evidence from China Household Income Project
Yang, Sui - 2015
Based on China Household Income Project rural data, this paper aims to study the changes of rural household income mobility in transitional China. The results show that with the economic reform and development, income mobility between 2007 and 2009 was much stronger than before. Regarding the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470414
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The Income Mobility in Rural China : Measurement and Decomposition
Jinqi, Jiang; Guang-Sheng, Zhang; Qiang, Liu - 2011
In this paper, we have used some mobility indexes to measure the rural income movements that happened in the time from 1988 to 2005, and decomposed it with the Fields&OK methods. From the analysis results, we found that income movements could reduce the short-term inequality in rural China, but...
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The impact of intergenerational transfers on the distribution of wealth : an international comparison
Horioka, Charles - 2024
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The impact of intergenerational transfers on the distribution of wealth : an international comparison
Horioka, Charles - 2024
light on the impact of intergenerational transfers on household wealth disparities and on possible reasons for the … substantial differences in household wealth disparities among the 4 countries. Almost all of the evidence I present suggests that … intergenerational transfers have a disequalizing impact on household wealth disparities and promote the transmission of household wealth …
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Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Rural Economy : Evidence from China and India
Emran, M. Shahe - 2019
We extend the Becker-Tomes (1986) model of intergenerational educational mobility to a rural economy characterized by occupational dualism (farm vs. nonfarm) and provide a comparative analysis of rural India and rural China. Using two exceptional data-sets, we estimate father-sons...
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Magical Transition? Intergenerational Educational and Occupational Mobility in Rural China : 1988?2002
Emran, Shahe - 2017
This paper presents evidence on intergenerational educational and occupational mobility in rural China over a period of 14 years (1988?2002). To understand whether the estimated inter-generational persistence can be driven solely by unobserved heterogeneity, biprobit sensitivity analysis and...
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Magical Transition? : Intergenerational Educational and Occupational Mobility in Rural China: 1988-2002
Emran, Shahe - 2015
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Magical Transition? Intergenerational Educational and Occupational Mobility in Rural China : 1988-2002
Emran, M. Shahe; Sun, Yan - 2011
This paper presents evidence on intergenerational educational and occupational mobility in Rural China over a period of 14 years (1988-2002). To understand whether the estimated intergenerational persistence can be driven solely by unobserved heterogeneity, we implement biprobit sensitivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179799
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Human capital matters : intergenerational occupational mobility in rural China
Zhuo, Ni; Ye, Chunhui; Ji, Chen - In: Applied economics 55 (2023) 1, pp. 1-19
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