Is urbanization narrowing the urban-rural income gap? A cross-regional study of China

Habitat International

Volumn 48, Issue , 2015, Pages 79-86

  Su, Chi Wei ^a   Liu, Tie Ying ^a   Chang, Hsu Ling ^b   Jiang, Xu Zhao ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b LING TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Bootstrap panel causality test; Urban rural income gap; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

GRANGER CAUSALITY TEST; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; POLICY DEVELOPMENT; REGIONAL ECONOMY; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL-URBAN COMPARISON; URBAN ECONOMY; URBANIZATION;

CHINA;

EID: 84926184518     PISSN: 01973975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.03.002     Document Type: Article

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