The Dynamics of Urban Income Distribution in China (1995–2007)

Hao Zhou

Chapter 8 in The New Chinese Economy, 2012, pp 155-172 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter investigates the income distribution among different Chinese cities using GDP data from the period 1995–2007. We use a city-level dataset covering all of mainland China, and provide an outline of Chinese urban growth. Nonparametric kernel-density estimation is employed to describe the evolution of the entire cross-sectional distribution of real per capita GDP over time. The main conclusions are as follows: (1) the urban income distribution structure of China has changed substantially from a unimodal pattern to a bimodal pattern between 1995 and 2007; (2) the dynamics of income distribution of prefecture-level cities is somewhat different from that of county-level cities; and (3) the ratio of people living below the absolute poverty line ($1/day) has dramatically declined in cities of all levels.

Keywords: Income Inequality; Income Distribution; Economic Research Journal; Absolute Poverty Line; Percentile Difference (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137012043_8

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