Why the income gap between rural and urban workers has grown

Sustaining India's growth miracle requires increased attention to ...

The gap between urban and rural incomes has also widened. Average incomes in urban India are twice that in rural India, which is still home ...

A spatial analysis of inward FDI and rural-urban wage inequality

Ouyang and Yao (2017) further show that. FDI in equity joint ventures (EJV) has a positive impact on economic growth, whereas the impact of. FDI in ...

Differences in Income Growth Across U.S. Counties

In general, median household income is higher in urban counties than in rural areas. ... had among the highest poverty rates for urban counties.

Economic Inequality by Gender - Our World in Data

Education and experience have become much less important in explaining gender differences in wages in the US. The next chart shows a breakdown of the ...

Rural New York: Challenges and Opportunities - NYS Comptroller

This can become cyclical where people leave for better opportunities in more urban places, limiting economic growth, and causing more people to seek economic ...

Working Paper : The Urban-Rural Income Gap and Inequality in China

Nevertheless, the gap remains large and has increased somewhat over time. ... of residence remains the most important factor underlying the urban-rural income gap ...

The trend of inequality in income distribution in Vietnam 2016-2020 ...

Rural areas tend to be opposite to urban areas when the income gap between the two lowest and highest groups increases from 8.4 times in ...

An Economic Development Strategy for rural Canada

However, rural communities also face unique economic challenges: rural incomes tend to lag behind those of urban communities, and unemployment ...

Income inequality is getting worse in urban areas - Better Cities Project

On average, in 1970, the Gini coefficient within rural counties was 10.2% higher than within urban counties. In 2016, it was just 0.5% higher.

Employment and wage disparities between rural and urban areas

Significantly, one in ten agricultural workers were in informal employment in 2016 – a rate that may be indicative of job quality deficits in the rural labour ...

urban-rural income disparity and its - significance in china

We have also found that the relative low labor productivity in the agricultural sector, the relative slowdown in agricultural growth, the relative low price of ...

The hukou system and wage gap between urban and rural migrant ...

(2020) have reported that rural migrant workers tend to work an average of 5.6% additional hours per month than urban workers in China. The ...

Economic shifts, cultural rifts and emerging political fault lines

The growth of the care economy: As the American population ages, health care has become one of the fastest-growing sectors in the economy, but ...

Education in the U.S.: The Great Equalizer? | PRB

During the past several decades, incomes have risen rapidly at the top of the income distribution, driven by technological changes combined with a slowdown in ...

Urban-Rural Income Inequality in China: new evidence from Input ...

This trend implies that China's income inequality has been increasing with its economy grows for the last decades, reaching a GINI coefficient ranged between ...

The State of the Urban/Rural Digital Divide

The biggest gap in Internet use between rural and urban Americans based on income ... NTIA has been working for the last eight years to bring ...

Worsening American Income: Inequality: Is world trade to blame?

Over the past quarter century, the nation has seen a dramatic shift in the pattern of demand for workers with different levels of skill. Job opportunities for ...

Tackling the UK's regional economic inequality: Binding constraints ...

the rest, largely driven by the underperformance of non-London cities. Earlier differences in employment rates and in industrial structure across regions have ...

Racial Inequality in the United States | U.S. Department of the Treasury

” This concept underpins the Biden Administration's economic growth strategy, which Secretary Yellen has coined “modern supply side economics.

'Poverty divides us': gap between rich and poor poses threat to China

As China grows wealthier as a country, its gaps between rich and poor, urban and rural also increase. ... have risen from middle income to high ...