A Semiparametric Analysis of Chinese Changing Income Distribution 1989-2004

10.6186/IJIMS.2010.21.4.4

Bing Xu；Wen-Tao Gu；Yi Li

Inequality ； Income Distribution ； Kernel Density Estimation

International Journal of Information and Management Sciences

21：4（2010 / 12 / 01）

431 - 452

英文

By applying the semiparametric approach with monte-carlo simulation, we construct the model to analyze the effects of the distributional changes in Chinese household structure during 1989 to 2004, including such attributes and status of old age pension, household socio-demographic, employment status and the ”economic returns”. Through the analysis we found the ”economic returns” has a major impact both on the change of the income distributions and the income inequality, which is a quite different result from the similar study of New Zealand. We investigate the impact of these different factors and find that the model applied can explain the change tendency of the income distributions very well. The income inequality, Gini coefficient, is also calculated as one of the measurement for the impact analysis of different factors.

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