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Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research 2/2019

28.01.2019

Mapping Public Concerns About Class Immobility in China

verfasst von: Shuanglong Li, Yunsong Chen, Guangye He

Erschienen in: Social Indicators Research | Ausgabe 2/2019

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Abstract

Public concerns about class immobility represent awareness of social closure and economic inequality on the part of members of the public. We provide the first representative portrait and empirical analysis of the growing immobility concerns among the Chinese. Using online query volume data from Baidu, the most widely used search engine in China, we extract the overall index of searching immobility-related words to measure the provincial level of concerns about immobility. We found that concerns about immobility rose dramatically from around 2008 and slightly decreased from 2012 and that all provinces show similar tendencies. We fit dynamic panel models using the Generalized Method of Moments estimator and found that the level of public concerns about class immobility in a province is profoundly affected by a series of the province’s political and socioeconomic conditions.
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Isabel Sawhill. “Inequality and social mobility: Be afraid,” Social Mobility Memos, May 27, 2015. https://​www.​brookings.​edu/​blog/​social-mobility-memos/​2015/​05/​27/​inequality-and-social-mobility-be-afraid/​.
 
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We performed a series of robustness checks. First, if a certain immobility-related word or several words had been far more searched for on Baidu, then ICC measured by the sum frequency of word searches may simply reflect the search for the very specific or for certain groups of words. So, for each province in each year, we carry out a Principal Components Analysis (PCA) to generate the overall index of search frequency rather than simply computing a sum of 75 time series of search. Second, we also sum up the Z-Score of 75-word frequencies to generate an alternative index. Although not reported here to save space, the results obtained from models using the two new indexes are in general consistent with what we have revealed in Table 2. The results are available upon request.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Mapping Public Concerns About Class Immobility in China
verfasst von
Shuanglong Li
Yunsong Chen
Guangye He
Publikationsdatum
28.01.2019
Verlag
Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in
Social Indicators Research / Ausgabe 2/2019
Print ISSN: 0303-8300
Elektronische ISSN: 1573-0921
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-019-02075-2

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