A new approach to measuring and studying the characteristics of class membership: The progress of poverty, inequality and polarization of income classes in urban China
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Keywords
Poverty Frontiers; Mixture Models; Class membership; Urban China.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C14 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- O1 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CNA-2014-11-17 (China)
- NEP-HME-2014-11-17 (Heterodox Microeconomics)
- NEP-TRA-2014-11-17 (Transition Economics)
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