Created unequal: China's regional pay inequality and its relationship with mega-trend urbanization

Applied Geography

Volumn 61, Issue , 2015, Pages 81-93

  Zhang, Wenjie ^a   Bao, Shuming ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Kuznets' curve; Metropolitan development; Regional inequality; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

INCOME DISTRIBUTION; KUZNETS CURVE; METROPOLITAN AREA; REGIONAL PATTERN; URBANIZATION;

CHINA;

EID: 84937637421     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.12.019     Document Type: Article

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