The "Inverted U-shaped" Hypothesis of Urban-Rural Income Gap in the Process of Urbanization: Empirical Testing and Policy Implications
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- 10.2991/icsshe-18.2018.149How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Urbanization, Urban-rural income disparities, The inverted U hypothesis, Guizhou Province
- Abstract
How urbanization affects the regional economic development. And it has been praised by educational world attention, especially the current unbalanced development. This is not fully the most outstanding performance as the gap between urban and rural areas, and the main performance in the income gap between urban and rural areas. Article selected ethnic areas in Guizhou province in 2000-2016 year series data as the foundation, that using multiple regression analysis method of residents' income gap between Urban and Rural areas in Guizhou province urbanization whether meet the "inverted U" hypothesis has carried on the empirical analysis. The results showed that: Guizhou province Urbanization and Urban-rural income gap exists between the irregular "inverted U" hypothesis, which shows the characteristics of the trend of the "M" type. Key measures to narrow the gap between urban and rural residents income, we must promote the building of the new Urbanization. This requires:(1)Optimization of mountain characteristic industrial supporting ability of urbanization, promote absorbing employment ability.(2)Synergy advancing precision for poverty alleviation and new urbanization development, equal to improve human capital investment of urban and rural residents.The innovation of this article: (Selected case studies, which has certain representativeness;(2)In economic less developed and underdeveloped minority areas inspection is in accordance with the "inverted U" hypothesis of adaptation.
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TY - CONF AU - Yeying Hong PY - 2018/09 DA - 2018/09 TI - The "Inverted U-shaped" Hypothesis of Urban-Rural Income Gap in the Process of Urbanization: Empirical Testing and Policy Implications BT - Proceedings of the 2018 4th International Conference on Social Science and Higher Education (ICSSHE 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icsshe-18.2018.149 DO - 10.2991/icsshe-18.2018.149 ID - Hong2018/09 ER -