Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People's Republic of China …, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions …

erences in the distribution of income and wages using county-level data from Germany. Chapter 2 analyzes the impact of the so …-called Hartz reforms on income inequality in German regions. Chapter 3 investigates the long-term effect of university openings on … the wage distribution in the surrounding area. Chapters 4 and 5 turn to the political consequences of regional income …

This paper examines the impact of migration on earnings inequality using 1940-2015 data from the U.S. census and … in earnings inequality and migration, and subsequently analyze regional and state patterns. Using 1940 birthplace … information to instrument for migration, I find that recent immigration mildly increases the top decile earnings share, while …

We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure … formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train machine learning models on census and survey data to predict … informal income. The data reveal a much higher degree of persistence than previous estimates available for developed economies …

We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure … formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train machine learning models on census and survey data to predict … informal income. The data reveal a much higher degree of persistence than previous estimates available for developed economies …

We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure … formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train machine learning models on census and survey data to predict … informal income. The data reveal a much higher degree of persistence than previous estimates available for developed economies …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …

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 … growing more rapidly. The trend whereby fewer persons in urban China have incomes that are lower than the poverty line …

We use household surveys to describe differences in wages, income, wealth and liquid assets of households born in their … "hand-to-mouth" (holding liquid assets worth less than two weeks of income), the corresponding share is 20% for households …

higher among foreign-born workers, reflecting weaker labor market attachment and high risk of large negative shocks for low-income … generosity and usage of benefit programs declined over time, we find stronger earnings growth among low-income workers …