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's Republic of China (PRC) also faces the problem of reducing rural-urban social inequality. It looks as if it is trying to solve … analyze and adopt the most effective ways of reducing rural-urban inequality, as practiced in China. It is also possible to …
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In this paper we quantify inequality of opportunity in labor market outcomes in Europe and Central Asia using the Human Opportunity Index (HOI) methodology. Using data from the 2006 Life in Transition Survey we also compare HOI-based measures of inequality with expenditure-based measures and...
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Emerging Europe has undergone a major economic transformation over the past 25 years. Most countries experienced initial drops in output during transition, followed by recovery in the second half of the 1990s. The path of transition in the Western Balkans has however been particularly uneven....
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) in China. We use the 2011/2012 Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey data (n = 6530) for this paper. Logistic … and community factors on life satisfaction and depression among the oldest-old in China. Our analysis confirms the … significance of many factors affecting life satisfaction among the oldest-old in China. Factors that are correlated with life …
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Current literature based on analyses of rural income volatility in China decompose poverty into chronic and transient …-rural income gap on which much of current poverty debate in China focuses. Available data indicate a growing urban-rural income gap … today. These estimates do not take into account the higher volatility of rural incomes in China. Since an uncertain income …
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The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was the beginning of one of the most interesting natural experiments in recent history. The East German transition from a Communist state to part of the Federal Republic of Germany abruptly created a new social order as old institutions were abolished and new...
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