| Author/Presenter |
Runjuan Liu (University of Alberta) |
| Co-authors |
Jun Han (University of Hong Kong) |
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Junsen Zhang (Chinese University of Hong Kong) |
| Title |
Globalization, Poverty and Inequality in Urban China |
| Abstract |
Although there is some consensus on the distributional effects of globalization in North America, little is known about its effects on poverty and inequality in a typical developing country like China. In this paper, we use two sharp "open-up" policy changes, Deng Xiaoping's "South Tour" in 1993 and China's WTO accession in 2001, to measure the causal impacts of globalization on urban poverty and inequality in China. Employing Chinese Urban Household Survey data from 1988 to 2005, we focus the analysis on whether regions that were more exposed to globalization experienced smaller or bigger changes in income and consumption than less-exposed regions. Further, we test whether the impacts of globalization are heterogeneous for different educational groups and occupational categories. We find that globalization alleviates the urban poverty in China, but it increases the urban inequality because skilled workers benefit more from globalization. |
| Web Link |
http://www.business.ualberta.ca/rliu/Research/China.pdf |
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