How does informal employment impact income inequality?

Hong Zuo

Applied Economics Letters, 2016, vol. 23, issue 15, 1117-1120

Abstract: This study investigates how informal employment impacts total income inequality in urban China. Finite mixture methodology is employed to examine the segments that exist in the informal labour market, and the Theil index (T0) is used to break down total income inequality according to different subsamples. We found that the two-segment model (upper-tier and lower-tier) best describes the structure of the informal labour market in urban China and that the upper-tier segment contributes most to the total income inequality.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2016.1142644

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