Post-industrial Economic Restructuring and Wage Inequality in Urban China, 2003-2015: A Sectoral Perspective

作     者：YANG Fiona Fan HU Fox Zhiyong WANG Yuhua YANG Fiona Fan;HU Fox Zhiyong;WANG Yuhua

作者机构：School of Geography and PlanningSun Yat-sen UniversityGuangzhou 510275China Department of Asian and Policy StudiesThe Education University of Hong KongHong Kong 999077China College of Water Conservancy and Civil EngineeringChina Agricultural UniversityBeijing 100083China 

出 版 物：《Chinese Geographical Science》 (中国地理科学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2020年第30卷第3期

页      面：516-531页

核心收录：

学科分类：120202[管理学-企业管理（含：财务管理、市场营销、人力资源管理）] 12[管理学] 0202[经济学-应用经济学] 02[经济学] 020207[经济学-劳动经济学] 1202[管理学-工商管理] 0201[经济学-理论经济学] 020205[经济学-产业经济学] 020106[经济学-人口、资源与环境经济学] 020105[经济学-世界经济] 

基　　金：Under the auspices of the Early Career Scheme of the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,China(No.28200615) Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(No.2018A030313276) 

主　　题：wage inequality post-industrial economy economic restructuring producer service urban China 

摘      要：Income inequality in urban China has attracted growing attention from China’s urban researchers and policy makers. Whereas many studies have interrogated the pattern and process of the income gap in Chinese cities undergoing the institutional transformation from plan to market, relatively little is known about how such unequal distribution of income is related to China’s ongoing structural transformation toward a post-industrial economy. Drawing on a decomposition methodology based on the Theil index, this study aimed to address this lacuna through an empirical investigation of China’s urban wage inequality from a sectoral perspective. Our empirical study identified the low-wage manufacturing sector and the high-wage producer services sector as the two biggest contributors to urban wage inequality in China. Urban wage inequality within the producer services was found to be caused by the spatial concentration of a disproportionate number of high-paying jobs in a few developed, high-tier city-regions on the eastern coast. Our empirical findings have important implications for the formulation of policies to address the income inequality that plagues China’s continuing urbanization.