Income mobility of individuals in China and the United States/ created by Niny Khor and John Pencavel

By:

Khor, Niny [author]

Contributor(s):

Pencavel, John H [co author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Economics of transition ; Volume 14, number 3Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006Content type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISSN:

09670750

Subject(s):

Income mobility -- Income inequality -- China -- USA

LOC classification:

HC244 ECO

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Abstract: Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the United States in the 1990s. The following questions are taken up. To what extent are measures of annual income inequality misleading indicators of long-run income inequality? How much income mobility was there in China in the first half of the 1990s and how did this compare with mobility in other countries? Have real income increases been greater for the poor or the rich? How important is the variation in permanent incomes in China and how has this changed?

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Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the United States in the 1990s. The following questions are taken up. To what extent are measures of annual income inequality misleading indicators of long-run income inequality? How much income mobility was there in China in the first half of the 1990s and how did this compare with mobility in other countries? Have real income increases been greater for the poor or the rich? How important is the variation in permanent incomes in China and how has this changed?

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