Understanding Inequality and Poverty in China: Methods and Applications Book

List of Figures     viii
List of Tables     ix
Preface     xiii
Acknowledgements     xix
Notes on Contributors     xx
List of Abbrevations     xxiii
Globalization and Regional Income Inequality: Empirical evidence from within China   Guanghua Wan   Ming Lu   Zhao Chen     1
Introduction     1
China's journey to globalization and regional inequality     3
Accounting for China's inter-regional income inequality     8
Conclusion     18
Appendix     23
The Urban-Rural Income Gap and Income Inequality in China   Terry Sicular   Yue Ximing   Bjorn Gustafsson   Shi Li     30
Introduction     30
Definitions and data     34
The urban-rural income gap: magnitude and trends     37
The contribution of the urban-rural gap to inequality     40
Urbanization, migrants and the rural-urban gap     42
Factors underlying the urban-rural income gap     50
Conclusion     62
Financial Development and Income Inequality in Rural China 1991-2000   Zhicheng Liang     72
Introduction     72
Financial development and income distribution: a brief literature review     73
Financial reforms and income inequality in rural China     75
Econometric modelling     80
Conclusion     84
Regional Income Inequality in Rural China, 1985-2002: Trends, Causes and Policy Implications   Guanghua Wan     89
Introduction     89
Data and preliminary analysis     90
Spatial decomposition     94
Sources of rural regional inequality     100
Conclusion     110
Appendix     114
Human Capital and Wage Determination in Different Ownerships, 1989-97   Chunbing Xing     117
Introduction     117
Data and model specification     118
OLS results     123
Self-selection and the rural-urban divide     128
Sector choice and human capital allocation     132
Conclusion     135
Income, Income Inequality and Health: Evidence from China   Hongbin Li   Yi Zhu     137
Introduction     137
Hypotheses and previous research     139
Data     144
Estimation results     150
Conclusion     160
Social Benefits in Urban China: Determinants and Impact on Income Inequality in 1988 and 2002   Qin Gao     173
Introduction     173
Recent income inequality trend in urban China     174
Data, measures and methods     175
Descriptive statistics of demographic characteristics by pre-tax pre-transfer income decile     185
Associations between social benefit levels and pre-tax pre-transfer market income and demographics     189
The impact of social benefits on income inequality     204
Conclusion     210
Appendix     216
China Urban Poverty and its Contributing Factors, 1986-2000   Xin Meng   Robert Gregory   Guanghua Wan     218
Introduction     218
Economic restructuring and social welfare reform in the 1990s     219
Data and poverty measure     222
Methodology and empirical results     225
Conclusion     240
Appendix     245
Poverty, Pro-Poor Growth and Mobility: A Decomposition Framework with Application to China   Yin Zhang   Guanghua Wan     250
Introduction     250
Decomposing poverty dynamics: growth, distribution and mobility     252
Decomposition of poverty trends in China      257
Conclusion     266
Index     271