Unemployment, consumption smoothing, and precautionary saving in urban China

By Xin Meng. 2003

185 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Sociology and Political Science, Soil Science

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In Accounting

1. Ho‑fung Hung
2. J. Lai
3. Xingjian Yi
4. Hao Zhang
5. Isabel Kit-Ming Yan
6. Yu Wu
7. Xin Meng
8. Shujie Yao

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Ho‑fung Hung
2. J. Lai
3. Xingjian Yi
4. Hao Zhang
5. Isabel Kit-Ming Yan
6. Youjuan Wang
7. R. Gregory
8. Xin Meng

In Soil Science

1. Ho‑fung Hung
2. J. Lai
3. Xingjian Yi
4. Hao Zhang
5. Isabel Kit-Ming Yan
6. Shujie Yao
7. Zongyi Zhang
8. Jing Jian Xiao

Citations in the corpus

• Demographic Patterns and Household Saving in China (2015, unknown): “The prime working age group (20-63) in China has increased from 46 percent of the population in 1970 to 65 percent today.”
• Growing inequality and poverty in China (2004, background): “Meng (2001) shows that 17.5 million state-owned enterprise (SOE) workers were made redundant by the end of 1998.”
• The impact of digital finance on household consumption: Evidence from China (2020, background): “Existing research on inadequate consumption has suggested that liquidity constraints (Kuijs, 2005), imperfect security systems (Meng, 2003), and income inequality (Schmidt-Hebbel and Serven, 2000) are important enforcing factors for inadequate consumption.”
• Rise of China and the global overaccumulation crisis (2008, background): “In addition, it is estimated that more than 80% of the total household saving deposits is commanded by less than 20% of the population, suggesting that this financial resource is highly concentrated among the urban elite, who would prefer spending their money on imported luxuries to spending it on l”
• Digital Financial Inclusion and Consumption Smoothing in China (2020, methodology): “Meng (2003) used Survey of Urban Household Income, Expenditure and Employment data in 1999 and found that households can smooth approximately 50 percent of income changes.”
• Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Urban China, 1986-2000 (2005, background): “Meng (2003) also found that the saving rate for households with unemployed members are on average positive and that the radical reform in the 1990s has induced a significant increase in precautionary saving in urban China.”