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Title
Inter-Industry Wage Differentials : An Increasingly Important Contributor to Urban China Income Inequality
Creator
Creator Name
Chen, Zhao Chen, Zhao
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
Fudan University
Creator Name
Lu, Ming Lu, Ming
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
Fudan University
Creator Name
Wan, Guanghua Wan, Guanghua
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
Zhejiang University
Asian Development Bank
Editor
Contributor Name
社会科学の高度統計・実証分析拠点構築 = Research Unit for Statistical and Empirical Analysis in Social Sciences
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
Hitotsubashi University
Key Word
Income inequality
Regression-based decomposition
Abstract
How significantly inter-industry wage differentials contribute to rising income inequality is an essential policy issue for transitional economies. Using regression-based inequality decomposition, this paper finds that inter-industrial wage differentials contributed increasingly to income inequality in urban China through 1988, 1995, and 2002, mainly due to rapid income growth in monopolistic industries. Factors such as region, education, ownership, occupation, and holding a second job also contribute increasingly to income inequality, while being employed the whole year and age have decreasing contributions. If China seeks to reduce urban income inequality, removing entry barriers in the labor market and breaking monopoly power in the goods market are essential policy prescriptions.
Publisher
Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Issued Date
2010-03
Language
English(eng)
Resource Type
technical report
Version Type
VoR
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Related Title
Global COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series ; No. 130
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  http://gcoe.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/english/index.html
Sponsorship
グローバルCOEプログラム = Global COE Program
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Global COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series
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https://hdl.handle.net/10086/18367