Income inequality among different regions in China's post-reform era

Title: Income inequality among different regions in China's post-reform era
Creator: Zhang, James Xiaohe; Harvie, Charles
Relation: Economic Growth, Inequality and Migration p. 68-88
Relation: http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/Bookentry_Main.lasso?id=1647
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2002
Description: China is one of the few countires in the world that uses a household registration (hukou) regime to prohibit migration not only from rural to urban areas, but also from one province to another. Although it has not been well acknowledged and discussed by academics and policy makers in China the impact of the hukou on overall income equality is significant, as found in the present study. Despite the registration system the country has achieved remarkable double digit annual economic growth in the last two decades of economic reform, and the hukou regime and the corresponding migration restrictions remain effective. As a result, income differentials amond different regions and between rural and urban sectors have been growing.
Subject: China; income inequality; household registration; hukou regime
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/29448
Identifier: uon:2556
Identifier: ISBN:1858989701
Language: eng

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