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You, Jing - 2017

We examine the heterogeneous and dynamic impact of China's New Rural Pension Scheme on intergenerational wealth …

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Pro-Rural Policies, Income and Inequality : Evaluating a Cash-for-Work Program in Rural China

Chen, Yu - 2014

Despite the dramatic reduction of poverty in China over the past thirty-five years, poverty has not been fully … both the challenges and achievements of pro-poor programs in China. Using original household survey data, we first …

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Income Polarization in the People’s Republic of China : Trends and Changes

Wan, Guanghua - 2015

This paper estimates income polarization in the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 1978 to 2010 and decomposes the …

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Socio-Economic Groups, Individual and Social Mobilities : An Axiomatic Framework and the Chinese Society

Liu, Lezheng - 2015

A society is composed of different socio-economic groups. At a given time, individuals in the society can be classified into different such groups. With the change of time, individuals can move across different groups. Social mobility is viewed as an aggregation of such individual movements...

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The Great Chinese Inequality Turnaround

Kanbur, Ravi; Wang, Yue; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2021

China’s high income and wealth inequality has long attracted the interest of policymakers and re-searchers, yet … surprisingly little has been done since 2010 on inequality trends. Given China’s evolving economic structure and the government …

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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?

Herd, Richard - 2010

In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been …

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The great Chinese inequality turnaround

Kanbur, Ravi; Wang, Yue; Zhang, Xiaobo - 2017

This paper argues that after a quarter century of sharp and sustained increase, Chinese inequality is now plateauing and even turning down. The argument is made using a range of data sources and a range of measures and perspectives on inequality. The evolution of inequality is further examined...

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Inequality in China : development, transition, and policy

Li, Shi; Sicular, Terry; Tarp, Finn - 2018

In this paper we describe the major trends in China's income inequality over the past 40 years and explain them as the …

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Changing trends in China's inequality : key issues and main findings

Sicular, Terry; Li, Shi; Yue, Ximing; Satō, Hiroshi - 2017

which share in common their use of household data from the latest round of the China Household Income Project (CHIP) survey … to analyze recent trends in inequality in China. We begin with an overview of relevant economic and policy developments … in China and discuss data and measurement issues. We discuss our central estimates of national income inequality based on …

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Overview: incomes and inequality in China, 2007-2013

Luo, Chuliang; Sicular, Terry; Li, Shi - 2017

In this chapter we examine trends in China's household incomes, income distribution and inequality for China as a whole …

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