A Spatial Analysis of Wages and Incomes in Urban China: Divergent Means, Convergent Inequality

John Knight, L. Shi and Z. Renwei

Economics Series Working Papers from University of Oxford, Department of Economics

Abstract: Two interesting results are obtained from CASS national household surveys of 1988 and 1995. First, there was a tendency for intra-provincial inequality in both earnings per worker and household income per capita not only to rise in each province but also to converge across provinces. Second, there was a tendency for both province mean earnings per worker and household mean incomes per capita not only to rise in each province but also to diverge across provinces. The paper is concerned to establish these patterns and then to explain them.

Keywords: WAGES; INCOME; CHINA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 O53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 1999
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