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该文利用农村家庭户的调查数据,从微观经济学的角度出发,研究了中国农村非农产业对农村地区收入不平等和贫困的影响.我们首先利用计量经济学方法,模拟家庭在不参与非农业活动情况下的收入水平,然后比较参与和不参与非农业活动两种情况下的收入分布.结果表明,非农业生产活动一方面缓解了农村地区的收入不平等状况,另一方面显著降低了农村的贫困化程度,缩小了贫困户间的收入差距,改善了最贫困户的收入水平.

POVERTY,INEQUALITY AND DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL NON-AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES

This paper studies the impacts of non-farm activities on rural inequality and pover- ty in China,using household survey data.Firstly,we simulate household income assuming no par- ticipation in non-agricultural activities based on our econometric results.Secondly,we compare the income distribution in two cases-one with participation in non-agricultural activities and one with- out.Our results show that,on the one hand,participation in non-farm activities alleviates in- equality in rural area;and on the other...