Evidence of scaling in Chinese income distribution

Yan Xu; Liang Peng Guo; Ning Ding; You Gui Wang

doi:10.1088/0256-307X/27/7/078901

Evidence of scaling in Chinese income distribution

Yan Xu, Liang Peng Guo, Ning Ding, You Gui Wang^*

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Abstract

With income data from Chinese household income projects in 1998-2002, we study the functional form of Chinese income distribution. The fitting results suggest a log-normal distribution plus a power-law tail. This distributional form has changed a lot from its appearance in the early stage of China's reform and turns out to be consistent with that of some complete market economies. The uncertainty and diversity of income growth rate aroused by marketing reform are the main causes of current Chinese income distribution.

Original language	English
Article number	078901
Journal	Chinese Physics Letters
Volume	27
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0256-307X/27/7/078901
Publication status	Published - Jul 2010

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