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Author Ding, Haiyan, author

Title A tale of transition : an empirical analysis of economic inequality in urban China, 1986-2009 / prepared by Haiyan Ding and Hui He
Published [Washington, D.C] : International Monetary Fund, Institute for Capacity Development, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (52 pages)
Series IMF working papers, 1018-5941 ; WP/16/239
IMF working paper ; WP/16/239.
Summary "This paper is the first comprehensive empirical study of earnings, income, and consumption inequality in urban China from 1986 to 2009, using unique micro-level data from the Urban Household Survey (UHS). The paper documents a drastic increase in economic inequality for the sample period. The paper finds that consumption inequality closely tracks income inequality, both over time and over the life cycle. The paper believes that the main driver of this co-movement could be a dramatic increase in non insurable idiosyncratic permanent income shocks after the early 1990s, associated with the economic transition in urban China."--Abstract
Notes "August 2016."
Subject Income distribution -- China.
Urbanization -- China
Consumption (Economics) -- China
Consumption (Economics)
Income distribution
Urbanization
China
Form Electronic book
Author He, Hui, author
International Monetary Fund. Institute for Capacity Development.
ISBN 1475560001
9781475560008