A Tale of Transition : An Empirical Analysis of Economic Inequality in Urban China, 1986-2009 /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ding, Haiyan
Other Authors: He, Hui
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2016/239
Online Access:Full text available on IMF