Essays about: "rural-urban income gap"
Found 4 essays containing the words rural-urban income gap.
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1. Real Income Determinants in Rural and Urban China
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : Substantial internal migration has been occurring for over two decades along with economic growth in China, are rural-urban migrants having better off real income than rural non-migrants in the return to education and age? What kind of character does migration location play in terms of the rural-urban real income gap? This paper will probe such issues and investigate the significance of different consequences in real income between migrants group and non-migrants group. By applying multiple linear regressions on the testing hypothesis, paper reaches the conclusion that rural-urban migrants are only having more favorable real income return to education in a lower level, and the return to age for both groups is statistical significant but very economic moderate. READ MORE
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2. Policy suggestions to the rural migration in China : According to the Todaro model and current situation of China
University essay from Ekonomihögskolan, ELNUAbstract : This paper studies the rural-urban migration in China. The cause of the analysis was the increasing number of rural-urban migrants caused by the fast industrialization. It could lead some serious problems in urban areas, such as the shortage of urban resources like house, food, etc., the increasing of unemployment probabilities and so on. READ MORE
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3. Will income inequality in China reverse itself? : Testing the Kuznets hypothesis on Fujian Province 1991-2003
University essay from Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Using 1991-2003 yearly statistical data from 66 counties in China’s Fujian province, we examine the relationship between GDP/capita levels and the rural-urban income gap, to see whether there exists any statistical relationship between these variables, and if such a relationship bears resemblance with the Kuznets’ “inverted U” hypothesis, predicting inequality to first rise, and then fall, as economic development proceeds. Our results point in the opposite direction; the income gap falls at the early stage of economic growth, but rises again as growth proceeds. READ MORE
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4. From clothing to productive rice: Do the migration and spending patterns of Cambodian garment workers show signs of a trickle-down effect?
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : Cambodia suffers from a large rural-urban gap. Given agricultural underemployment a Lewisian perspective on economic growth can be applied, with the secondary sector being the garment industry in Phnom Penh. It provides employment and domestically high wages to a quarter of a million rural women who remit large shares to their families. READ MORE
