Title: Income Mobility in Rural China:Perspective from the Absolute Income Mobility
Abstract:Based on the six sets of panel data of rural household incomes extracted from the CHNS,this paper analyzes income mobility and its decomposition in rural China from the perspective of absolute income ...Based on the six sets of panel data of rural household incomes extracted from the CHNS,this paper analyzes income mobility and its decomposition in rural China from the perspective of absolute income mobility.The major findings are:(1) The absolute income mobility in rural China remained at a high level from 1988 to 2005,and the absolute income mobility in long-term was higher.(2) Absolute income mobility presented a tendency of decreasing first,then increasing,and decreasing again,with the two inflexion points of 1996 and 2003;furthermore,the absolute income mobility and relative income mobility showed the same tendency.(3) The main source of absolute income mobility in rural China was the exchange of income position between different households,and the income growth played the second important role,while the enlarging income inequality only had a very limited effect on absolute income mobility.Read More
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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