经济增长、腐败与收入不平等

Economic Growth,Corruption and Income Inequality

本文利用我国1978-2012年的时间序列数据，研究了经济增长和腐败对收入不平等的影响。研究发现，腐败扩大了居民收入差距，而经济增长则有利于缩小收入分配差距。因此，通过预防和惩治腐败，减少行政权力对经济和社会资源的垄断，降低行政权力对市场的干预力度，稳步推进政治体制改革，加强对行政权力的民主监督；同时，继续深化市场化改革，加快经济发展，提高居民收入占国民收入的比重，是缩小收入分配差距的关键。

This paper studies how corruption and economic growth affect income distribution by using time series data from 1978 to 2012in China.The analysis reveals that corruption significantly increases the degree of income inequality while the economic growth is helpful to decrease the degree of income inequality.So the key to decrease income inequality is to prevent and punish corruption,reduce the monopoly of the administrative powers of economic and social resources,reduce the administrative powers of market intervention,gradually push forward the reform of political system and strengthen the democratic supervision of administrative power.In the meantime,the government should continue to deepen the market-oriented reforms,accelerate economic development and improve people's income share of national income to narrow the income gap.