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Despite the many negative aspects of life in cities, urban promises of economic prosperity, freedom and happiness have fuelled the imagination of generations of migrants, who have flocked to cities in search of a better life, invariably exaggerating the opportunities and neglected the potential...
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During the last decades, China has experienced double-digit economic growth rates and rising inequality. This paper … implements a new decomposition on the China Health and Nutrition panel Survey (1991-2006) to examine the extent to which changes … find that health disparities in China relate to rising income inequality and in particular to the adverse health and income …
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This paper estimates the intergenerational income elasticity for urban China, paying careful attention to the potential … that while China has experienced rapid growth of absolute incomes, the relative position of children in the distribution is …
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Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … misleading indicators of long-run income inequality? How much income mobility was there in China in the first half of the 1990s …
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Yuan, Guanghua Wan, and Niny Khor find that majority of households in the People's Republic of China have become middle …
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Intergenerational income elasticities are estimated using samples for urban China (covering many cities) for the years … income link between sons and fathers in urban China appears to be not very different from what has been reported for …
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