Mobility in China

Yi Chen and Frank Cowell ()

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Abstract: The evidence on rank and income mobility in China reveals an important change around the year 2000. Using panel data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey we show that rank mobility fell markedly from the decade immediately preceding the millennium to the decade immediately following: in this respect China is becoming noticeably more rigid. By contrast income mobility has carried on increasing; so has income inequality. The simultaneous increase in rigidity and inequality presents China with a challenging policy problem.

Keywords: D63; income distribution; mobility measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-06-01
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Published in Review of Income and Wealth, 1, June, 2017, 63(2), pp. 203-218. ISSN: 0034-6586

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Journal Article: Mobility in China (2017)
Working Paper: Mobility in China (2013)
Working Paper: Mobility in China (2013)
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