Empirical Analysis on Income Inequality of Chinese Residents

• Main Authors: Zhou, Yunbo (Author), Qin, Yan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Gu Shutang Academic Fund of Economics, 1
• Subjects: Population.; Economics.; Population Economics.

The subject of this book is discussing the income inequality of Chinese residents, its change and the factors that impact it. In this book all kinds of quantitative methods, including decomposing Gini Coefficients method, Fei-Ranis method, two-sectors model and other econometric models. Some special...

Table of Contents:

• 1.Introduction
• 2. Concept of Income Distribution and Indexes and Methods for Measuring Income Inequality
• 3.Income Inequality of China’s Urban Resident and the Factors Which Impact It
• 4.Income Inequality of Chinese Rural Resident and the Factors Which Impact It
• 5.Income Inequality of China’s Total Resident and the Factors Which Impact It
• 6.Impact of Rent-seeking on Income Inequality
• 7.Forecast for Chinese Resident’s Income Inequality in Future
• 8.Conclusions and Policy Suggestions
• Appendices
• References
• Afterword.