2. Income and consumption in the study of inequality in China 3. How exceptional is China? 4. Survey data for China and India 5. The distribution of income and expenditure 6. Determinant factors of the income and expenditure distributions 7. Concluding remarks Acknowledgements Appendix A. Appendi...
Rising inequality is one of the grand societal challenges of our time. Yet, its effects on firms – including multinational enterprises (MNEs) – and their operations have not been widely examined by IB scholars. In this study, we posit that income inequality within a country is positively asso...
Anu Madgavkar:That is correct—our research focuses on the advanced economies and not the developing world. We didn’t include it in this framing of the inequality question for a couple of reasons. The first is that much of the developing world is still grappling with poverty. That’s th...
We calculated Gini coefficients as a measure of geographic inequality at the country level23. Our results suggest that geographic inequality in EBF prevalence decreased in most of the countries from 2000 to 2018 (77 of 94) on the basis of Gini coefficients; while there were 11 countries in 200...
Our results suggest that total aggregate trade flows are weakly related with income inequality. However, once we disaggregate total trade flows according to their areas of origin/destination, we find that trade with high income countries worsen income distribution in DCs, both through imports and ...
Re: “Income inequality grew in Seattle since the pandemic, new data shows” : Yes, too many of us are barely able to make ends meet. As a...
This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three series of data sets. Our focus is on both urban and rural inequality, as well as the urban-rural gap, with the objective of summarizing several "first-order" empirical patterns ...
Using new household survey data for 1995 and 2002, we investigate the size of China's urban-rural income gap, the gap's contribution to overall inequality in China, and the factors underlying the gap. Our analysis improves on past estima... T Sicular,X Yue,B Gustafsson,... 被引量: 523...
Women's appearance enhancement is driven partly by status anxiety and income inequality, according to new research.
aIncome inequality in China has risen rapidly in the past decades across regions, between rural and urban sectors, and within provinces. The dynamics of divergence across these sub-national areas have taken the form of a"race to the top"- meaning that all segments of the population, including...