Urban Consumption Inequality in China, 1995–2013
Published By: Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA) | Published Date: November, 01 , 2017The paper uses 1995, 2002 and 2013 CHIP data to investigate the urban household consumption expenditure inequality. The overall inequality of urban household consumption expenditure measured by Gini coefficient slightly decreases from 0.33 in 1995 to 0.32 in 2002, but increases to 0.36 in 2013, which follows the same trend with that of urban income but is severer. However, the percentile ratio of p90/p10 shows that consumption inequality increases all the time.
Author(s): Qingjie Xia, Shi Li, Lina Song | Posted on: Nov 20, 2017 | Views() | Download (394)