The urban-rural income gap and inequality in China
The urban-rural income gap and inequality in China
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1475-4991.2007.00219.x
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发表时间：
2007-03-01
影响因子：
2
通讯作者：
Shi, Li
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作者：
Sicular, Terry;Yue Ximing;Shi, Li
本文利用1995年和2002年的新家庭调查数据，研究了中国城乡收入差距的规模、差距对中国整体不平等的贡献，以及差距背后的因素。我们的分析改进了过去的估计，使用了更全面的收入衡量标准，调整了空间价格差异，并纳入了移民。我们的方法包括人口亚群不等式分解和Oaxaca-Blinder分解。出现了几个关键的发现。首先，这些调整大大缩小了中国城乡收入差距及其对不平等的贡献。然而，差距仍然很大，并且随着时间的推移有所增加。第二，在控制了家庭特征之后，居住地仍然是影响城乡收入差距的最重要因素。造成这一差距的唯一家庭特征是教育。在禀赋和回报上的差异，其他家庭特征，如家庭规模和组成，土地所有权和共产党成员资格，相对来说是不重要的。
Using new household survey data for 1995 and 2002, we investigate the size of China's urban-rural income gap, the gap's contribution to overall inequality in China, and the factors underlying the gap. Our analysis improves on past estimates by using a fuller measure of income, adjusting for spatial price differences and including migrants. Our methods include inequality decomposition by population subgroup and the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. Several key findings emerge. First, the adjustments substantially reduce China's urban-rural income gap and its contribution to inequality. Nevertheless, the gap remains large and has increased somewhat over time. Second, after controlling for household characteristics, location of residence remains the most important factor underlying the urban-rural income gap. The only household characteristic that contributes substantially to the gap is education. Differences in the endowments of, and returns to, other household characteristics such as family size and composition, landholdings, and Communist Party membership are relatively unimportant.