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Urban Income Inequality in China Revisited (1988–2002)

Demurger, Sylvie; Fournier, Martin; & Li, Shi. (2006). Urban Income Inequality in China Revisited (1988–2002). Economics Letters, 93(3), 354-359.

Demurger, Sylvie; Fournier, Martin; & Li, Shi. (2006). Urban Income Inequality in China Revisited (1988–2002). Economics Letters, 93(3), 354-359.

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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 recent inequality rise.




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Demurger, Sylvie
Fournier, Martin
Li, Shi



2006


Economics Letters

93

3

354-359






0165-1765

10.1016/j.econlet.2006.06.010



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