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Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Urban China, 1986-2000
Meng, Xin; Gregory, Robert; Wang, Youjuan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822037
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Regional Price Differences in Urban China 1986-2001: Estimation and Implication
Gong, Cathy Honge; Meng, Xin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822212
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How Much Do We Know about the Impact of the Economic Downturn on the Employment of Migrants?
Meng, Xin; Kong, Sherry Tao; Zhang, Dandan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The employment shock of late 2008 in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) may have been a product of three different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363347
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Migrant Entrepreneurs and Credit Constraints under Labour Market Discrimination
Frijters, Paul; Kong, Tao; Meng, Xin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We use a unique data of representative migrants and urban local workers in 15 Chinese cities to investigate entrepreneurship and credit constraints under labour market discrimination. We divide self employed into prefer to be self-employed and prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294843
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Stunting and Selection Effects of Famine: A Case Study of the Great Chinese Famine
Ggens, Tue; Meng, Xin; Vaithianathan, Rhema - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2010
Many developing countries experience famine. If survival is related to height, the increasingly common practice of using height as a measure of well-being may be misleading. We devise a novel method for disentangling the stunting from the selection effects of famine. Using data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009352204
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Labour Market Impact of Large Scale Internal Migration on Chinese Urban 'Native' Workers
Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
endogeneity problem our results show that rural migrants in urban China have modest positive or zero effects on the average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008683653
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Stunting and Selection Effects of Famine: A Case Study of the Great Chinese Famine
Ggens, Tue; Meng, Xin; Vaithianathan, Rhema - Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic … - 2010
Many developing countries experience famine. If survival is related to height, the increasingly common practice of using height as a measure of well-being may be misleading. We devise a novel method for disentangling the stunting from the selection effects of famine. Using data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752085
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Economic reform, education expansion, and earnings inequality for urban males in China, 1988–2009
Meng, Xin; Shen, Kailing; Xue, Sen - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 1, pp. 227-244
In the past 20 or so years the average real earnings of Chinese urban male workers have increased by 350%. Accompanying this unprecedented growth is a considerable increase in earnings inequality. Between 1988 and 2009 the variance of log earnings increased from 0.28 to 0.54, a 94% increase....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010662541
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Stunting and selection effects of famine: A case study of the Great Chinese Famine
Gørgens, Tue; Meng, Xin; Vaithianathan, Rhema - In: Journal of Development Economics 97 (2012) 1, pp. 99-111
Many developing countries experience famine. If survival is related to height, the increasingly common practice of using height as a measure of well-being may be misleading. We devise a novel method for disentangling the stunting from the selection effects of famine. Using data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011065901
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Are optimistic expectations keeping the Chinese happy?
Frijters, Paul; Liu, Amy Y.C.; Meng, Xin - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 81 (2012) 1, pp. 159-171
In this paper we study the effect of optimistic income expectations on life satisfaction amongst the Chinese population. Using a large scale household survey conducted in 2002 we find that the level of optimism about the future is particularly strong in the countryside and amongst rural-to-urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010597452