Income inequality in rural China: Regression-based decomposition using household data

Review of Development Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 107-120

  Wan, Guanghua ^a   Zhou, Zhangyue ^b  

^a UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; HOUSEHOLD INCOME; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RURAL ECONOMY;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; WORLD;

EID: 13944254698     PISSN: 13636669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9361.2005.00266.x     Document Type: Article

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