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 …

, 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 … can be drawn from. First, urbanization has a significant effect on reducing both poverty of rural residents and poverty of …

visibility in the deprivation of goods and assets vis-à-vis income behind perceptions of relative deprivation. We rely on … that of deprivation in income. The effect is robust under various sensitivity checks and for a number of controls. The … relative economic situation and proposes that future research should not solely rely on income-based deprivation measures. …

This paper explores the association between income and stated views on minimum living standards; that is, views on … representative survey, we find the rich are less empathetic. In our baseline model, people at the bottom of the income distribution … report 10% more items as essential than do people at the top of the income distribution. The negative relationship between …

affect income, poverty, and income distribution. Panel data regression models with household fixed effects show that rainfall … shocks reduce per capita income by 9% on average. The income losses are larger for poor than for non-poor households. Two … consecutive rainfall shocks have stronger negative income effects, especially among the poor, who have limited resilience capacity …

policies. However, due to complicated nature of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) poverty …The at-risk-of-poverty rate is one of the three indicators used for monitoring progress towards the Europe 2020 poverty …") the current at-risk-of-poverty rate for the European Union (EU) countries based on EU-SILC microdata from a previous …

This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … declined in the 2000s. There was a remarkable fall in income poverty since the early 1980s, driven by the exceptional … poverty across countries and regions, an assessment of trends in these variables since the early 1980s, and a general …

. Yet there is no gap in average disposable income between the two ethnic groups and poverty rates are very similar. This … paradox is due to members of Hui households earning more income outside the farm than members of Han households. Particularly … young male Hui living in poor villages have a remarkably high likelihood of migrating, thereby bringing home income to their …