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Income Inequality in Urban China : a Case Study of Beijing
| Author | DAI Erbiao |
|---|---|
| Date of Publication | 2005. 6 |
| No. | 2005-04 |
| Download | 412KB |
Contents Introduction
This paper measures the income inequality among Beijing households, including both rural migrant households, who had been overlooked in previous studies, and urban-registered households. Furthermore, it estimates the influence of migrant households on the overall income inequality by decomposing the Theil index of overall inequality into three components: the share of inequality within urban-registered households, the share of inequality within migrant households, and the share of inequality between these two types of households. The result shows that the income inequality within migrant households has become the largest component of the overall income inequality in Beijing.