Rural-urban migrants' remittances and wage inequality: Evidence from China.
In: Agricultural Economics / Zemědělská Ekonomika, Jg. 66 (2020-03-01), Heft 3, S. 129-145
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Abstract: There is a link between rural-urban remittances and wage inequality. However, the existing literature sheds little light on this topic. In this study, we establish a three-sector general equilibrium model to investigate the effects of rural-urban migrants' remittances on wage inequality. Further, we use Chinese macroeconomic data to calibrate the parameters and conduct analysis with numerical simulation. We find that, when rural-urban migrants raise their remittance rate, wage inequality between skilled labour and the urban formal sector remains unchanged in the sector- -specific capital case but narrows in the sector-mobile capital case. Moreover, in the sector-specific case, skilled and unskilled wage inequalities, wSY and wSZ, decrease at the same rate as the urban-rural wage inequalities, wXY and wXZ, respectively. In the mobile case, however, the former declines faster than the latter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Rural-urban migrants' remittances and wage inequality: Evidence from China.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | YUNYUN, WU ; XIAOCHUN, LI |
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Zeitschrift: | Agricultural Economics / Zemědělská Ekonomika, Jg. 66 (2020-03-01), Heft 3, S. 129-145 |
Veröffentlichung: | 2020 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
ISSN: | 0139-570X (print) |
DOI: | 10.17221/53/2019-AGRICECON |
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