Changes in the source of China's regional inequality

This paper examines whether the dominant sources of China's regional inequality have changed since the early 1980s. We adopt the decomposition method introduced by Tsui (1993) to facilitate comparisons with his results for 1982. The decomposition analysis shows that the dominant sources of over...

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Published inChina economic review Vol. 11; no. 3; pp. 232 - 245
Main Author Lee, Jongchul
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Inc 01.01.2000
Elsevier
SeriesChina Economic Review
Subjects
Inequality decomposition
Regional inequality
Inequality decomposition
Regional inequality
O53
O18
P20
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Summary:This paper examines whether the dominant sources of China's regional inequality have changed since the early 1980s. We adopt the decomposition method introduced by Tsui (1993) to facilitate comparisons with his results for 1982. The decomposition analysis shows that the dominant sources of overall regional inequality in output have shifted from the intraprovincial to interprovincial inequality, from the rural–urban to intrarural inequality, and also from the disparity within the coast to between the coast and the interior. In the case of consumption, however, the intraprovincial inequality, the rural–urban inequality, and the disparity within the coast are the major factors of the overall regional inequality.
ISSN:1043-951X
1873-7781
DOI:10.1016/S1043-951X(00)00019-5