Mobility in China
Chen, Y. & Cowell, F. A.
(2013).
Mobility in China.
(Public Economics Programme Papers PEP 18).
Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
(2013).
Mobility in China.
(Public Economics Programme Papers PEP 18).
Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines.
We examine the evidence on rank and income mobility in China during the decades immediately preceding and immediately following the millennium using panel data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We show that rank mobility changed markedly over the period: in this respect China is becoming markedly more rigid. By contrast income mobility has carried on increasing; so has income inequality.