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Creativity and Inequality: The Dual Path of C hina's Urban Economy?
Author(s) -
Liu Cathy Yang,
Xie Wen
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
growth and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.657
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1468-2257
pISSN - 0017-4815
DOI - 10.1111/grow.12023
Subject(s) - dual economy , economics , inequality , earnings , tertiary sector of the economy , labour economics , creativity , economic inequality , wage , economy , market economy , political science , mathematical analysis , mathematics , accounting , law
Utilizing C hinese data for the years of 1998, 2000, 2005, and 2008, this research traces the growth of the creative economy and the enlarging income inequality in C hina's urban economy. While the creative sector now makes up close to 30 percent of C hina's urban private employment, industry‐based earnings disparity has also increased substantively. Provinces with larger creative economy also tend to have higher level of wage inequality among workers of the creative sector, the working sector, and the service sector. Several other factors, especially internal migration flow, size of manufacturing, and ownership structure in local economy, are found to be significantly linked to inequality as well.