01730cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF017279 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781475560008 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Ding, Haiyan. A Tale of Transition : An Empirical Analysis of Economic Inequality in Urban China, 1986-2009 / Haiyan Ding, Hui He. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2016. 1 online resource (52 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students This paper is the first comprehensive empirical study of earnings, income, and consumption inequality in urban China from 1986 to 2009, using unique micro-level data from the Urban Household Survey (UHS). The paper documents a drastic increase in economic inequality for the sample period. The paper finds that consumption inequality closely tracks income inequality, both over time and over the life cycle. The paper believes that the main driver of this co-movement could be a dramatic increase in noninsurable idiosyncratic permanent income shocks after the early 1990s, associated with the economic transition in urban China. Mode of access: Internet He, Hui. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2016/239 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2016/239/001.2016.issue-239-en.xml IMF e-Library