城市化水平与城乡收入差距的效应研究——基于省级面板数据

Research on the Effects of Urbanization and Urban-rural Income Gap——Based on the Provincial Panel Data

城乡收入差距与城市化之间的关系已成为当前经济研究的热点。利用1998-2008年间的30个省级面板数据,采用单位根检验、格兰杰因果检验及面板数据模型等方法对中国城市化与城乡收入差距的关系进行了研究,研究发现城市化对缩小城乡收入差距具有正负两方面的影响,对中国大多数省市或地区来说,加快城市化进程能有效地缩小城乡收入差距。因此,加快城市化进程仍是缩小城乡收入差距的有效途径。最后就如何减少城市化对缩小城乡收入差距的负面影响提出了几点建议。

The relationship between urbanization and urban-rural income gap has become a hotspot in current economic research.With the unit root test,granger causality test and panel data models and other methods,we study the relationship between urbanization and urban-rural income gap by 30 provincial-level panel data of period 1998 to 2008.The study found that urbanization has both positive and negative effects to shrink the urban-rural income gap.In most provinces and regions in China,Speed up the urbanization process can effectively narrow the urban-rural income gap.Finally,I give some suggestions on urbanization how to reduce the negative effects on narrowing the urban-rural income gap.