Accounting for income inequality in rural China: a regression-based approach
Accounting for income inequality in rural China: a regression-based approach
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jce.2004.02.005
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发表时间：
2004-06
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Guanghua Wan
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作者：
Guanghua Wan
本章研究了文献中基于回归的不平等分解方法，暴露了缺陷，并提出了一个更灵活的框架，可以与任何不平等指标一起使用，并且对基本的创收功能的规范施加了很少的限制。它描述了各种决定因素对中国农村总体不平等的贡献，并提供了一个规范性的分析。本章提供了一个基于回归的不平等分解框架，其中基尼系数被用作衡量不平等的一个例子。它调查了中国农村收入不平等的根源，并进行了总结和政策建议。随着时间的推移，中国农村地区的不平等正在加剧，这具有重要的社会和政治影响。许多文献侧重于不平等的衡量或传统的分解，这只提供了有限的见解区域不平等的原因。在中国，超过50%的农村收入来自农业活动，非农收入主要来自家庭企业。
This chapter examines regression-based approaches to inequality decomposition in the literature, exposes the flaws, and proposes a more flexible framework that can be used with any inequality indicator and that imposes few restrictions on the specification of the underlying income-generating function. It describes the contributions of various determinants to total inequality in rural China and provides a prescriptive analysis. The chapter provides a general regression-based framework for inequality decomposition in which the Gini coefficient is used as an example measure of inequality. It investigates the root sources of income inequality in rural China and deals with a summary and policy recommendations. Regional inequality in rural China is increasing over time, which has important social and political implications. Much of the literature focuses on inequality measurements or conventional decompositions, which provide only limited insights into the causes of regional inequality. In China, more than 50 percent of rural income is from farming activities, and non-farm income come mainly from family businesses.