The Effect of Foreign Direct Investment Inflows on Income Inequality: Evidence from China

Jai S. Mah ()

Global Economy Journal, 2015, vol. 15, issue 4, 443-453

Abstract: This paper uses data for China during the period 1982–2010 and tests the effect of FDI inflows on income inequality, which is measured by the urban Gini coefficient. A small-sample cointegration test and autoregressive distributed lag bounds test are used as the cointegration tests. According to them, the variables under consideration are not cointegrated. The GMM estimation results show that income inequality worsens with FDI flows into China. The evidence from China shows a non-linear effect of FDI inflows on income inequality.

Keywords: income inequality; FDI; non-linear effect; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D30 F21 O24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1515/gej-2015-0045 (text/html)
For access to full text, subscription to the journal or payment for the individual article is required.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bpj:glecon:v:15:y:2015:i:4:p:443-453:n:5

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/gej/html

DOI: 10.1515/gej-2015-0045

Access Statistics for this article

Global Economy Journal is currently edited by Jannett Highfill

More articles in Global Economy Journal from De Gruyter
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().