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Unequal consequences of COVID-19 across age and income: representative evidence from six countries
Belot, Michèle; Choi, Syngjoo; Tripodi, Egon; Van den … - 2020
Covid-19 and the measures taken to contain it have led to unprecedented constraints on work and leisure activities, across the world. This paper uses nationally representative surveys to document how people of different ages and incomes have been affected across six countries (China, South...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239013
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China and the United States: Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility
van der Weide, Roy; Narayan, Ambar - 2019
The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423987
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Mapping and Understanding Ethnic Disparities in Length of Schooling: The Case of Ningxia Autonomous Region, China
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Sai, Ding - 2014
Disparities in length of schooling between the largest Muslim minority in China, the Hui, and the Han majority are investigated. We use household data collected in Ningxia autonomous region in 2007. It is found that compared with Han persons of the same age and gender, Hui persons have shorter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010468121
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Mapping and understanding ethnic disparities in length of schooling : the case of Ningxia autonomous region, China
Gustafsson, Björn; Ding, Sai - 2014
Disparities in length of schooling between the largest Muslim minority in China, the Hui, and the Han majority are investigated. We use household data collected in Ningxia autonomous region in 2007. It is found that compared with Han persons of the same age and gender, Hui persons have shorter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423763
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China and the United States : different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility
Weide, Roy van der; Narayan, Ambar - 2019
The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161622
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Mapping and Understanding Ethnic Disparities in Length of Schooling: The Case of Ningxia Autonomous Region, China
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Sai, Ding - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Disparities in length of schooling between the largest Muslim minority in China, the Hui, and the Han majority are investigated. We use household data collected in Ningxia autonomous region in 2007. It is found that compared with Han persons of the same age and gender, Hui persons have shorter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959613
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Pandemics and Intergenerational Mobility of Education : Evidence from the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Epidemic in China
Liang, Wenquan; Xue, Sen - 2021
This paper examines the impact of the SARS epidemic in 2003 on intergenerational mobility in China. Using large cross-city variation in SARS cases, our triple difference-in-differences estimates suggest that the SARS epidemic significantly increases the intergenerational transmission of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249428
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Pandemics and intergenerational mobility of education : evidence from the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic in China
Liang, Wenquan; Xue, Sen - 2021
This paper examines the impact of the SARS epidemic in 2003 on intergenerational mobility in China. Using large cross-city variation in SARS cases, our triple difference-in-differences estimates suggest that the SARS epidemic significantly increases the intergenerational transmission of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430261
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Catching up, structural transformation, and inequality : lessons from Asia
Martorano, Bruno; Park, Donghyun; Sanfilippo, Marco - 2016
contributed to Asia's sustained rapid growth, its effect on income inequality is uncertain. The central objective of our paper is … to empirically examine the effect of structural change on wage inequality in Asia, using industry-level data for three … inequality in the region. However, we also find that policy responses, especially investment in education matching the higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011579027
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Sharing high growth across generations:pensions and demographic transition in China
Song, Zheng; Storesletten, Kjetil; Wang, Yikai; … - USI Università della Svizzera italiana - 2012
Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient isuues in contemporary China. China's aging population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570550