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Regional Income Inequality in Selected Large Countries

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...

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Migration, self-selection, and income distributions: Evidence from rural and urban China

Xing, Chunbing - 2010

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/10010269876

Regional price differences in urban China 1986 -2001: estimation and implication

Honge Gong, Cathy; Meng, Xin - 2008

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 …

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Real exchange rate, foreign trade and employment: Evidence from China

Zeng, Xiangquan; Yuxue, Cui; Shisong, Qing; Yumei, Yang - 2011

Coordination of macro-economic development and employment is an essential issue for China's social development, which …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280727

Continental and Sub-Continental Income Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at regions defined as equivalent of continental and sub-continental levels. We investigate the economic disparity between...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262022

Regional income stratification in unified Germany using a Gini decomposition approach

Frick, Joachim R.; Goebel, Jan - 2005

This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the obligatory between- and within-group components as well...

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Well-being across America

Oswald, Andrew J.; Wu, Stephen - 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...

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20 years of German unification: evidence on income convergence and heterogeneity

Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - 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...

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Using pseudo-panels to measure income mobility in Latin America

Cuesta, Jose; Ñopo, Hugo; Pizzolitto, Georgina - 2011

This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003. Using three alternative econometric techniques on constructed pseudo-panels, the paper provides a set of estimators for the traditional notion of income mobility as well as for...

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Does Greater Inequality Lead to More Household Borrowing? New Evidence from Household Data

Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Kudlyak, Marianna; … - 2014

One suggested hypothesis for the dramatic rise in household borrowing that preceded the financial crisis is that low-income households increased their demand for credit to finance higher consumption expenditures in order to keep up with higherincome households. Using household level data on debt...

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