The Urban-Rural Income Gap and Inequality in China

Terry Sicular (), Ximing Yue, Björn Gustafsson and Shi Li ()

No RP2006-135, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Using new household survey data for 1995 and 2002, we investigate the size of China's urban-rural income gap, the gap's contribution to overall inequality in China, and the factors underlying the gap. Our analysis improves on past estimates by using a fuller measure of income, adjusting for spatial price differences and including migrants. Our methods include inequality decomposition by population subgroup and the Oaxaca- Blinder decomposition. Several key findings emerge.

Keywords: Equality and inequality; Households; Income; Income distribution; Regional economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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