Intergenerational income mobility in urban China

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 481-503

  Gong, Honge ^a   Leigh, Andrew ^b   Meng, Xin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Intergenerational mobility; Political party membership; Transgenerational persistence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864767109     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: 14754991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4991.2012.00495.x     Document Type: Article

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