Income Inequality in the People’s Republic of China and Its Decomposition: 1990–2004. Asian Development Review, Vol. 25(1-2), pp. 119-136
Lin, Tun; Zhuang, Juzhong; Yarcia, Damaris; Lin, Feng | August 2008
Abstract
This paper estimates income inequality in the People’s Republic of China at
the national, regional, and provincial levels using extrapolated unit-level
household income data covering urban and rural populations of 23 provinces
during 1990–2004. The estimates indicate that income inequality increased
significantly during the last two decades, but the extent of the increases was
lower than reported in most sources by about 20 percent when regional
differences in cost of living are adjusted. The major sources of the increases
in inequality were found to be within urban inequality and between urban and
rural inequality, with their contribution increasing, respectively, from 15.7
and 12.0 percent in 1990, to 34.0 and 30.4 percent in 2004. The betweenregion
and between-province inequality only accounted for 3.8 and 11.2
percent, respectively, in 2004.
Citation
Lin, Tun; Zhuang, Juzhong; Yarcia, Damaris; Lin, Feng. 2008. Income Inequality in the People’s Republic of China and Its Decomposition: 1990–2004. Asian Development Review, Vol. 25(1-2), pp. 119-136. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/1688. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.Citable URI
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