Does Technology Disparities Affect the Regional Income Differences: Based on Chinese Provincial Panel Data

摘要：

In this paper, we examine Chinas regional growth patterns and inspect the role of technology in income convergence or divergence within a crosssection of Chinese 30 provinces by means of panel unit root test and variance decomposition. Looking at the per capita GDP of the provinces from 1952 to 2008, we find there is no evidence showing that income convergence. Not only agent of production accumulation but also total factor productivity is the key reason of increasing income gap. At the meantime, the rapid economic growth of Chinas provincial economies over the reform period is at the price of the increasing interprovincial income inequality, which results from the different productivity growth across the provinces. We suggested that building an integrated market economy in order to facilitate interregional technology diffusion to improve productivity should be on the top of Chinas economic reform agenda in the next five-year plan.

关键词： technology disparities income difference economy growth panel data unit root test

作者: ZHANG Jian CHEN Song

作者单位: School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, P. R. China Department of Economics and Manag School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, P. R. China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: Shanghai Conference on Management of Technology(2010上海技术管理研讨会 MOT2010)(第七届中国技术管理学术年会)

会议地点: 上海

会议语种:英文

页码: 261-265

在线出版日期: 2010-06-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）