The Impact of Taxes and Transfers on Income Inequality, Poverty, and the Urban-Rural And Regional Income Gaps in China
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- Nora Lustig & Yang Wang, 2020. "The Impact of Taxes and Transfers on Income Inequality, Poverty, and the Urban-Rural and Regional Income Gaps in China," Working Papers 556, ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality.
- Nora Lustig & Yang Wang, 2020. "The Impact of Taxes and Transfers on Income Inequality, Poverty, and the Urban-Rural and Regional Income Gaps in China," Working Papers 2003, Tulane University, Department of Economics.
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Keywords
Poverty and Inequality in China; Urban-Rural Gap; Regional Disparity; Taxes; Transfers; Incidence Analysis; Test;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- H22 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Incidence
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CNA-2020-08-10 (China)
- NEP-URE-2020-08-10 (Urban & Real Estate Economics)
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