Understanding Urban Wage Inequality in China 1988–2008: Evidence from Quantile Analysis

Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie

doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2014.04.005

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“…Instead of restricting covariate effects on conditional means, these regressions allow analyzing whether the effect of a given covariate changes over the conditional distribution of the dependent variable (Koenker and Hallock, 2001). Recent applications have used quantile regressions to model a range of heterogeneous effects from determinants of wages (Appleton et al, 2014), technology adoption (Sanglestsawai et al, 2014), social capital (Grootaert and Narayan, 2004) and CO 2 emissions (You et al, 2015) to impacts of economic inequality (Hassine, 2015;Nguyen et al, 2007). The conditional quantile function of given can be expressed as…”

Section: Quantile Regressions Model Specificationmentioning

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Oil Palm Adoption, Household Welfare, and Nutrition Among Smallholder Farmers in Indonesia

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Abstract: The recent expansion of oil palm in Indonesia is largely smallholder-driven. However, its socio-economic implications are under-examined. Analyzing farm-household data from Jambi Province, Sumatra, oil palm adoption is found to have positive consumption and nutrition effects. However, these effects are largely due to farm size expansion that is associated with oil palm adoption. Potential heterogeneity of effects among oil palm adopters is examined using quantile regressions. While nutrition effects of oil palm adoption are found to be homogenous across quantiles, the effects on non-food expenditure are expressed more strongly at the upper end of the expenditure distribution. Terms of use: Documents in

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Section: Quantile Regressions Model Specificationmentioning

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Oil Palm Adoption, Household Welfare, and Nutrition Among Smallholder Farmers in Indonesia

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“…Appleton et al [23]. Many researchers also pay attention to regional disparity and its influencing factors.…”

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Regional Convergence and Sustainable Development in China

2016

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Based on the convergence theory of economic growth, this paper extends this concept to the human development index and carries out an empirical analysis of regional development in China between 1997 and 2006. Our research shows that the conditional convergence has been identified. Investment in fixed assets, government expenditure on education, health and infrastructure construction have positive effects on regional convergence of social development. Population weighted analysis of human development index provides support for weak convergence amongst provinces. Analysis of dynamics of regional distribution reveals the club convergence, which indicate two different convergence states. Central China is in the shade and lags behind, giving rise to the so-called "central downfall". To solve this problem, the "Rise of Central China" Plan is necessary to promote the connection between coastal and inland regions of China and reduce the regional development gap.

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“…Since the early 1990s, Chinese cities have experienced rapid growth not only in income and population size but also in income inequality. The income Gini coefficient for the nation rose from 0.38 in 1988, to 0.45 in 1999, and to 0.49 in 2007 (Knight, ), reflecting increasing reward to skills and disparity in opportunities associated with different social and occupational background (Appleton et al., ). The Gini coefficient varies considerably across Chinese cities, ranging from 0.246 to 0.483 according to 2007 Urban Household Survey (UHS) data (Zheng et al.…”

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Local Public Service Provision and Spatial Inequality in Chinese Cities: The Role of Residential Income Sorting and Land‐use Conditions

Sun

Zheng

2016

Journal of Regional Science

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Spatial inequality refers to unequal access to local public services between high‐ and low‐income households in relation to their residential locations. We examine two hypotheses regarding the role of income sorting and land‐use conditions in shaping spatial inequality in Chinese cities, where residents have little direct influence on local public service provision. First, in the presence of resource indivisibility, travel cost, and location‐based rationing, scarcity of public‐service resources in a city makes access to public services more uneven across neighborhoods, thus exacerbating income sorting and spatial inequality in the city. Second, the exacerbating effect of resource scarcity is mitigated by land‐use conditions that limit income sorting. Estimates of willingness to pay by households of different income levels for public‐service resources across cities corroborate both the exacerbating effect of resource scarcity and the mitigating effect of inclusive land‐use conditions.

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Understanding Urban Wage Inequality in China 1988–2008: Evidence from Quantile Analysis

Cited by 64 publications

References 24 publications

Oil Palm Adoption, Household Welfare, and Nutrition Among Smallholder Farmers in Indonesia

Oil Palm Adoption, Household Welfare, and Nutrition Among Smallholder Farmers in Indonesia

Regional Convergence and Sustainable Development in China

Local Public Service Provision and Spatial Inequality in Chinese Cities: The Role of Residential Income Sorting and Land‐use Conditions

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