全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Is that Really a Kuznets Curve? Turning Points for Income Inequality in China

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w29199
来源ID	Working Paper 29199
	Is that Really a Kuznets Curve? Turning Points for Income Inequality in China
	Martin Ravallion; Shaohua Chen
发表日期	2021-08-30
出版年	2021
语种	英语
摘要	The path of income inequality in post-reform China has been widely interpreted as “China’s Kuznets curve.” We show that the Kuznets growth model of structural transformation in a dual economy, alongside population urbanization, has little explanatory power for our new series of inequality measures back to 1981. Our simulations tracking the partial “Kuznets derivative” of inequality with respect to urban population share yield virtually no Kuznets curve. More plausible explanations for the inequality turning points relate to determinants of the gap between urban and rural mean incomes, including multiple agrarian policy reforms. Our findings warn against any presumption that the Kuznets process will assure that China has passed its time of rising inequality. More generally, our findings cast doubt on past arguments that economic growth through structural transformation in poor countries is necessarily inequality increasing, or that a turning point will eventually be reached after which that growth will be inequality decreasing.
主题	Microeconomics ; Market Structure and Distribution ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Development and Growth ; Development
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w29199
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/586872
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Martin Ravallion,Shaohua Chen. Is that Really a Kuznets Curve? Turning Points for Income Inequality in China. 2021.

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