A Tale of Transition : : An Empirical Analysis of Economic Inequality in Urban China, 1986–2009 / / Haiyan Ding, Hui He

• Autore: Ding Haiyan
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (53 pages) : illustrations (some color), tables, graphs
• Disciplina: 330.951
• Soggetto topico: Macroeconomics; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions; Intertemporal Consumer Choice; Life Cycle Models and Saving; Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth; Aggregate Factor Income Distribution; Income inequality; Consumption; Income shocks; Income; Disposable income; National accounts; Income distribution; Economics; National income
• Soggetto geografico: China Economic conditions; China, People's Republic of
• Altri autori: HeHui
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 noninsurable idiosyncratic permanent income shocks after the early 1990s, associated with the economic transition in urban China.
• Titolo autorizzato: A Tale of Transition
• ISBN: 1-4755-6007-9; 1-4755-6931-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910162943903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; ; No. 2016/239