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The Role of China's Household Registration System in the Urban-Rural Income Differential
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2017
rural residents. In this paper we focus on China's household registration system, or "hukou", as a potential source of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946604
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Migration, Self-Selection, and Income Distributions : Evidence from Rural and Urban China
Xing, Chunbing - 2014
As massive rural residents leave their home countryside for better employment, migration has profound effects on income distributions such as rural-urban income gap and inequalities within rural or urban areas. The nature of the effects depends crucially on who are migrating and their migrating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069680
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Analysis of the Determinants of Income and Income Gap between Urban and Rural China
Su, Biwei - 2014
-rural income inequality in China. OLS, conditional quantile regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition methods are used to analyze … four waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) household data. Results show that education and occupation are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064627
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Regional Price Differences in Urban China 1986-2001 : Estimation and Implication
Gong, Cathy Honge; Meng, Xin - 2021
Despite the intensive efforts made by economists to examine regional income inequality in China, limited attention has … in urban China over the period 1986 to 2001. Spatial Price Index (SPI) is normally calculated using the Basket Cost … those obtained from the Basket Cost method. Further, regional price variations in urban China increased significantly during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325065
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The Impacts of the Dollar-Renminbi Exchange Rate Misalignment on the China-United States Commodity Trade : An Asymmetric Analysis
Ferjani, Sabrine; Saafi, Sami; Nouira, Ridha; Rault, … - 2022
trade between China and the U.S. in order to avoid the well-known aggregation bias. Estimates of symmetric error … in assessing the effects of the RE misalignment on trade flows between the U.S. and China and confirms that the impacts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083735
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Real Exchange Rate, Foreign Trade and Employment : Evidence from China
Zeng, Xiangquan - 2011
Coordination of macro-economic development and employment is an essential issue for China's social development, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120837
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Explaining Regional Disparities in Housing Prices Across German Districts
Brausewetter, Lars; Thomsen, Stephan L.; Trunzer, Johannes - 2022
Over the last decade, German housing prices have increased unprecedentedly. Drawing on quality-adjusted housing price data at the district level, we document large and increasing regional disparities: growth rates were higher in 1) the largest seven cities, 2) districts located in the south, and...
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The Regional Distribution of Public Employment : Theory and Evidence
Kessing, Sebastian - 2012
We analyze the optimal regional pattern of public employment in an information-constrained second-best redistribution policy showing that regionally differentiated public employment can serve as an expenditure side tagging device, bypassing or relaxing the equity-efficiency trade-off. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107718
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Well-Being Across America
Oswald, Andrew J. - 2009
This paper uses new Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data to provide the first estimates of well-being across the states of America. From this sample of 1.3 million US citizens, we analyze measures of life satisfaction and mental health. Adjusting for people's characteristics, states...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153288
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20 Years of German Unification : Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity
Brück, Tilman - 2009
We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155542