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This study examines the long-term changes in the distribution of rural income in China from the late 1980s until the … agricultural income and wage earnings, which reflect the structural changes in rural income caused by the dual processes of … China. …
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Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent …-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers … residents in China and in urban Russia to be very similar. -- income distribution ; inequality ; China ; Russia ; public …
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paper adds to existing research on exits from poor neighbourhoods by focusing on the effects of income increase on … residential mobility. We analyse intra-urban residential mobility from low-income neighbourhoods into non-low-income … the 2004–2014 period for the full Finnish population, allowing a dynamic analysis of changes in income and neighbourhood …
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This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing controversy on the distributional effects of structural reforms in developing countries. Applying inequality indices and Fields' (2001) decomposition methodology to Bolivian household survey data of the years 1989 to 1997, we identify recent trends...
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In a context of widespread concern about budget deficits, it is important to assess whether public sector pay is in line with the private sector. Our paper proposes an estimation of differences in lifetime values of employment between public and private sectors for five European countries. We...
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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 … was slower in the lower part of the income distribution and thus the trend of increased income inequality in urban China …
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This study examines how income-driven governance affects inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa with data …) governances. The main finding is that "middle income"-driven governance has a higher effect on inclusive human development than … "low income"-driven governance. Policy implications are discussed in the light of: (i) the contemporary relevance of …
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to institute a system of income redistribution. However, a higher propensity to save by the rich would exacerbate wealth … inequality rendering redistribution unsustainable, leading to the demise of the Islamic unity. Consequently, income inequality …
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