Income is the main wellbeing indicator used to measure inequality in China, as in other middle-income countries (e.g. Latin America and South Africa). A measure of consumption is more often preferred for the analysis of inequality among other developing countries, such as in Sub-Saharan Africa...
Income inequality on the basis of gender has lessened over time, but women are still often underpaid in comparison to men, and there are more levels of inequality within the wage gap when it comes to race and type of occupation. Closing it remains unfinished business in making the United Sta...
We used recently available household panel data collected by China's National Bureau of Statistics to examine the effects of natural, human, material, and social capital on income inequality among minority farmers in China's Xinjiang Province between 2011 and 2012. Results obtained from panel ...
Economic transition, gender bias, and the distribution of earnings in China Economics of Transition (2005) BraunsteinE. et al. Foreign direct investment and gendered wages in urban China Feminist Economics (2007) ChaoY. et al. Remaking inequality: Institutional change and income stratification in ...
Urban-Biased Policies and Rising Income Inequality in China *Department of Economics,Duke University,Dur-ham,NC27708.I thank Loren Brandt,Belton Fleisher, and Allen Kelley for helpful comments,and Dana D.Chen for assistance.1See Dilip Mookherjee and Anthony Shorrocks(1982) and Peter J.Lambert ...
Presents information as it pertains to the income and inequality of persons living in China, highlighting the distribution and growth of household income between 1988 and 1995. Efforts launched to estimate household income in China; Reference to the evolution and sources of equality in China; What ...
"Unfortunately, for a variety of practical and political reasons, government statistics have not been a reliable source of information onincome inequalityin today's China," Xie said. The U-M researchers calculated an internationally accepted measure of income inequality, the Gini coefficient, and com...
(2000) ‘Politics, Growth and Inequality in Rural China: Does it Pay to Join the Party?’, Journal of Public Economics, 77, 3: 331–56.CrossRef NBS (National Bureau of Statistics) (China) (1996) China Statistical Yearbook 1996 (Beijing: China Statistical Press). National Bureau of ...
First, this work points out that institutional barriers in the labor market, like the Hukou system in China, might lead to income inequality. Second, the Hukou system and its reform is a critical component of the urbanization of China, so our findings have important policy implications for the...
Using the data from the China Family Panel Studies from 2010 to 2018, we find that rising income inequality causes parents to spend more on children’s education, both in school and out of school. The impact of income inequality on out-of-school expenditures is significant at intensive and ...