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Exploring the effect of industrial agglomeration on income inequality in China

Income inequality is a good indicator reflecting the quality of people’s livelihood. There are many studies on the determinants of income inequality. However, few studies have been conducted on the impacts of industrial agglomeration on income inequality and their spatial correlation. The goal of th...

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Main Authors: Aslam, Izah Selamat, Zhang, Suhua, Bani, Yasmin, Abdul Ghani, Judhiana
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Published: PLOS 2023
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/107882/
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287910
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spelling my.upm.eprints.1078822024-07-12T08:09:03Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/107882/ Exploring the effect of industrial agglomeration on income inequality in China Aslam, Izah Selamat Zhang, Suhua Bani, Yasmin Abdul Ghani, Judhiana Income inequality is a good indicator reflecting the quality of people’s livelihood. There are many studies on the determinants of income inequality. However, few studies have been conducted on the impacts of industrial agglomeration on income inequality and their spatial correlation. The goal of this paper is to investigate the impact of China’s industrial agglomeration on income inequality from a spatial perspective. Using data on China’s 31 provinces from 2003 to 2020 and the spatial panel Durbin model, our results show that industrial agglomeration and income inequality present an inverted “U-shape” relationship, proving that they are the non-linear change. As the degree of industrial agglomeration increases, income inequality will rise, after it reaches a certain value, income inequality will drop. Therefore, Chinese government and enterprises had better pay attention to the spatial distribution of industrial agglomeration, thereby reducing China’s regional income inequality. PLOS 2023-06-29 Article PeerReviewed Aslam, Izah Selamat and Zhang, Suhua and Bani, Yasmin and Abdul Ghani, Judhiana (2023) Exploring the effect of industrial agglomeration on income inequality in China. PLoS One, 18 (6). e0287910. ISSN 1932-6203 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287910 10.1371/journal.pone.0287910
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description Income inequality is a good indicator reflecting the quality of people’s livelihood. There are many studies on the determinants of income inequality. However, few studies have been conducted on the impacts of industrial agglomeration on income inequality and their spatial correlation. The goal of this paper is to investigate the impact of China’s industrial agglomeration on income inequality from a spatial perspective. Using data on China’s 31 provinces from 2003 to 2020 and the spatial panel Durbin model, our results show that industrial agglomeration and income inequality present an inverted “U-shape” relationship, proving that they are the non-linear change. As the degree of industrial agglomeration increases, income inequality will rise, after it reaches a certain value, income inequality will drop. Therefore, Chinese government and enterprises had better pay attention to the spatial distribution of industrial agglomeration, thereby reducing China’s regional income inequality.
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author Aslam, Izah Selamat
Zhang, Suhua
Bani, Yasmin
Abdul Ghani, Judhiana
spellingShingle Aslam, Izah Selamat
Zhang, Suhua
Bani, Yasmin
Abdul Ghani, Judhiana
Exploring the effect of industrial agglomeration on income inequality in China
author_facet Aslam, Izah Selamat
Zhang, Suhua
Bani, Yasmin
Abdul Ghani, Judhiana
author_sort Aslam, Izah Selamat
title Exploring the effect of industrial agglomeration on income inequality in China
title_short Exploring the effect of industrial agglomeration on income inequality in China
title_full Exploring the effect of industrial agglomeration on income inequality in China
title_fullStr Exploring the effect of industrial agglomeration on income inequality in China
title_full_unstemmed Exploring the effect of industrial agglomeration on income inequality in China
title_sort exploring the effect of industrial agglomeration on income inequality in china
publisher PLOS
publishDate 2023
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/107882/
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287910
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