我国对外开放与收入差距:基于地区和行业的考察

随着我国对外开放程度的加深,地区和行业之间的收入差距拉大问题日益凸显。对外和开放和收入差距是否存在某种因果关系,以及它们之间的作用机制是本文的主题。研究表明:对外开放与地区和行业收入差距存在单向格兰杰因果关系,前者在提高各地区各行业平均收入的同时,由于其影响的强度差异而相对地拉大了我国地区和行业之间的收入差距。

Openness and Income Gap: Evidence from Regions and Industries in China

With Decades of growing openness and reforms in China,income gaps in regions and industries have been more prominent than before and draw considerable attention of the public in recent years.This paper studies the theory and empirical links between openness and income gap on the level of region and industry,and the influence mechanism among them.By using panel data,the study shows that there is a one way granger cause-result relationship between them.we also find that the effects of openness on income of most regions and industries are positive,but it augment the income gap relatively because of the differences of effects on different regions and industries.