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Subjective Well-Being in China, 2005-2010 : The Role of Relative Income, Gender and Location

Asadullah, M. Niaz - 2016

-being in China over the period 2005-2010 during which self-reported happiness scores show an increase across all income groups … find that women, urban residents and people with higher income are happier in China. More schooling, better health and … China, conditional on socio-economic differences. On the other hand, rural residents are poorer than urban residents so that …

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Intergenerational Income Mobility in Urban China

Gong, Cathy Honge - 2014

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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Geographies of Socio-Economic Inequality

Ham, Maarten van; Manley, David; Tammaru, Tiit - 2022

Over many decades, academics, policymakers and governments have been concerned with both the presence of inequalities and the impacts these can have on people when concentrated spatially in urban areas. This concern is especially related to the influence of spatial inequalities on individual...

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Trends in the German Income Distribution : 2005/06 to 2010/11

Biewen, Martin - 2017

We analyze the potential influence of a number of factors on the distribution of equivalized net incomes in Germany over the period 2005/2006 to 2010/11. While income inequality considerably increased in the years before 2005/2006, this trend was stopped after 2005/2006. Among many other...

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Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution : Evidence from a Survey Experiment

Cruces, Guillermo - 2011

Individual perceptions of income distribution play a vital role in political economy and public finance models, yet there is little evidence regarding their origins or accuracy. This study examines how individuals form these perceptions and posits that systematic biases arise from the...

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The Distributional Impact of Public Services When Needs Differ

Aaberge, Rolf - 2010

Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services in distributional analysis, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality estimates. In particular, the equivalence scales applied to...

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Income Mobility

Jantti, Markus - 2014

This paper is prepared as a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Elsevier-North Holland, forthcoming). Like the other chapters in the volume (and its predecessor), the aim is to provide comprehensive review of a particular area...

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How Does Exposure to Covid-19 Influence Health and Income Inequality Aversion?

Asaria, Miqdad; Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2021

We study whether exposure to COVID-19 has affected individual aversion to health and income inequality in the UK, Italy, and Germany, as well as the effect of personal shocks on employment (redundancies, government replacement salary and unemployment), income and health directly linked to...

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Inequality and Volatility Moderation in Russia : Evidence from Micro-Level Panel Data on Consumption and Income

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2009

We construct key household and individual economic variables using a panel micro data set from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) for 1994-2005. We analyze cross-sectional income and consumption inequality and find that inequality decreased during the 2000-2005 economic recovery....

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Review of the Recent Trends in Development Economics Research : With Experience from the Federal Region of Kurdistan

Heshmati, Almas - 2008

This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...

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