Post-industrial Economic Restructuring and Wage Inequality in Urban China, 2003–2015: A Sectoral Perspective
| Autor: | Wang Yuhua, Yang Fiona Fan, HU Fox Zhiyong |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Theil index
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences business.industry Geography Planning and Development Post-industrial economy Distribution (economics) 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Economic restructuring Empirical research Economic inequality Urbanization Development economics General Earth and Planetary Sciences business China 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Chinese Geographical Science. 30:516-531 |
| ISSN: | 1993-064X 1002-0063 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11769-020-1125-0 |
| Popis: | Income inequality in urban China has attracted growing attention from China’s urban researchers and policy makers. Whereas many studies have interrogated the pattern and process of the income gap in Chinese cities undergoing the institutional transformation from plan to market, relatively little is known about how such unequal distribution of income is related to China’s ongoing structural transformation toward a post-industrial economy. Drawing on a decomposition methodology based on the Theil index, this study aimed to address this lacuna through an empirical investigation of China’s urban wage inequality from a sectoral perspective. Our empirical study identified the low-wage manufacturing sector and the high-wage producer services sector as the two biggest contributors to urban wage inequality in China. Urban wage inequality within the producer services was found to be caused by the spatial concentration of a disproportionate number of high-paying jobs in a few developed, high-tier city-regions on the eastern coast. Our empirical findings have important implications for the formulation of policies to address the income inequality that plagues China’s continuing urbanization. |
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