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dc.contributor.authorLi, Chao
dc.contributor.authorGibson, John
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-09T01:12:26Z
dc.date.available2012-10-09T01:12:26Z
dc.date.issued2012-07
dc.identifier.citationLi, C. & Gibson, J. (2012). Rising regional income inequality in China: Fact or artefact? (Department of Economics Working Paper Series, Number 09/12). Hamilton, New Zealand: University of Waikato.en_NZ
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10289/6691
dc.description.abstractChina’s local populations can be counted in two ways; by how many people have hukou household registration from each place and by how many people actually reside in each place. The counts differ by the non-hukou migrants – people that move from their place of registration – who have grown from fewer than five million when reform began in 1978 to over 200 million by 2010. For most of the first three decades of the reform era, the hukou count was used to produce per capita GDP figures. In coastal provinces the resident count is many millions more than the hukou count, while for migrant-sending provinces it is the reverse, creating a systematic and time-varying distortion in provincial GDP per capita. Moreover, a sharp discontinuity occurred when provinces recently switched from the hukou count to the resident count when reporting GDP per capita. A double-count also resulted because some provinces switched before others and initial resident counts were incomplete. This paper describes the changing definition of provincial populations in China and their impact on inequality in provincial GDP per capita. We show that much of the apparent increase in inter-provincial inequality disappears once a consistent series of GDP per resident is used.en_NZ
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Waikatoen_NZ
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDepartment of Economics Working Paper Series
dc.rights©2012 The Authorsen_NZ
dc.subjectInequalityen_NZ
dc.subjectGrowthen_NZ
dc.subjectRegional developmenten_NZ
dc.subjectPopulationen_NZ
dc.subjectChinaen_NZ
dc.titleRising regional income inequality in China: Fact or artefact?en_NZ
dc.typeWorking Paperen_NZ
uow.relation.series09/12


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