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Poverty in China’s Urban Communities Profile and Correlates
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In this article, the authors studied urban poverty in the state-enterprise residential areas and private housing areas of two cities in northeastern and southwestern China and identified the main determinants of poverty.Abstract:
In China’s transition to a market economy, the old socialist system which included full employment and comprehensive social welfare for urban citizens has been replaced by an emerging labour market and a rebuilt social security. The collapse of the old system has thrown a large number of retrenched state workers into poverty and then concentrated the poor in particular communities. This study specifically addresses urban poverty in the state-enterprise residential areas and private housing areas of two cities in northeastern and southwestern China. The two-step study firstly profiles the poverty and characteristics from city to individual level and then identifies the main determinants of poverty in the early 2000s. Urban low-income households had suffered multidimensional disadvantages due to a number of factors including increasing inequality, industrial reconstruction, legacies of the socialist system and the policy and financial burdens of their (previous) affiliated danwei (work units). Data analysis...read more
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Layoffs and Urban Poverty in the State-Owned Enterprise Communities in Shaanxi Province, China
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Urban Contradictions in Socialist China's Economic Miracle : Enigma of Socio-Economic Dualism in Hyper-Modernization
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Income Distribution During System Reform and Economic Development in China: The Status and Trend of INcome Inequality of Chinese Residents
TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of illegal and abnormal income on distribution inequality of Chinese residents was analyzed and the concept and status of IAIs on the distribution of income in China was discussed.
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The truly disadvantaged : the inner city, the underclass, and public policy
TL;DR: Wilson's "The Truly Disadvantaged" as mentioned in this paper was one of the sixteen best books of 1987 and won the 1988 C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
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A Class of Decomposable Poverty Measures
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Housing inequality in urban China in the 1990s
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the sources of housing inequality in Shanghai and Tianjin, when a market reform process had been underway in the national economy for nearly fifteen years, and found that the Chinese housing allocation system favors people with political position and connections, those of higher socio-economic background, and those whose work units have greater organizational authority.
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The Process of Commercialisation of Urban Housing in China
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a review of housing reforms and a systematic account of the key features of the commercialization process, focusing principally on the attempts to privatise public-sector housing in urban areas in the context of the major characteristics and problems of the urban housing system, the development of reform policies and legislation and current reform practice.
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