Urban income inequality in China revisited, 1988-2002

Sylvie Démurger (), Martin Fournier () and Shi Li
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Martin Fournier: GATE - Groupe d'analyse et de théorie économique - CNRS : UMR5824 - Université Lumière - Lyon II - Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines
Shi Li: School of Economics and Business - Beijing Normal University

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Abstract: Using newly available spatial price deflators, this paper shows that inequality evaluations in the literature overstate the magnitude of inequality and inequality changes in China, as well as the role played by regional differences in the observed inequality rise duringthe 1990s.

Keywords: Inequality; China; Spatial price-deflators; Inequality decomposition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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Published, Economic Letters, 2006, 93, 3, pp. 354-359

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