Globalization and Regional Income Inequality--Evidence from within China

China¡¯s recent accession to the WTO is expected to accelerate its integration into the world economy, which aggravates concerns over the impact of globalization on the already rising inter-region income inequality in China. This paper discusses China¡¯s globalization process and estimates an income generating function, incorporating trade and FDI variables. It then applies the newly developed Shapley value decomposition technique to quantify the contributions of globalization, along with other variables, to regional inequality. It is found that (a) globalization constitutes a positive and substantial share to regional inequality and the share rises over time; (b) capital is one of the largest and increasingly important contributor to regional inequality; (c) economic reform characterized by privatization exerts a significant impact on regional inequality; and (d) the relative contributions of education, location, urbanization and dependency ratio to regional inequality have been declining.

Globalization and Regional Income Inequality: Evidence from within China

globalization, inequality, decomposition, Shapley value, China

Inter-Industry Wage Differentials: An Increasingly Important Contributor to Urban China Income Inequality

How significantly inter-industry wage differentials contribute to rising income inequality is an essential policy issue for transitional economies. Using regression-based inequality decomposition, this paper finds that inter-industrial wage differentials contributed increasingly to income inequality in urban China through 1988, 1995, and 2002, mainly due to rapid income growth in monopolistic industries. Factors such as region, education, ownership, occupation, and holding a second job also contribute increasingly to income inequality, while being employed the whole year and age have decreasing contributions. If China seeks to reduce urban income inequality, removing entry barriers in the labor market and breaking monopoly power in the goods market are essential policy prescriptions.Inter-industry wage differntials, Income ineqality, Regression-based decomposition

Globalization and Regional Income Inequality: Empirical evidence from within China

globalization, inequality decomposition, Shapley value, China

The Inequality-Growth Nexus in the Short and Long Runs: Empirical Evidence from China

inequality, growth, polynominal inverse lag

Ethnographic Study of Buddhist Education, Based on Burgess\u27 Social Science Method at an American University and a Private Buddhist Organization

The literature shows that there are many studies about Buddhism in the United States and religion on college campuses, but few studies specifically about Buddhism in American universities. The purpose of this study is to explore how American college students approach and learn about Buddhism. A qualitative research study of clinical ethnography was applied to conduct this study at the Florida International University (FIU) and Florida Buddhist Association (FBA). FBA was chosen to compare with FIU so that the features of Buddhist education at FIU would be clearer. Eight students and four teachers (instructors) were interviewed at FIU; and two teachers and four members of the Buddhist association were interviewed at FBA. The researcher attended all possible scheduled lectures and activities over several weeks at FIU and FBA. Trustworthiness, which can be specified into confirmability, credibility, dependability, and transferability, was utilized to explain the validity and reliability in this qualitative study. The findings were presented with eight themes: (1) aim, (2) teacher, (3) student, (4) content, (5) environment, (6) evaluation, (7) experience of Buddhism, and (8) points of view. The study examines how people in American universities evaluate their Buddhism-learning situations and environments, and how they think about topics related to Buddhism. A quantitative study should be conducted with a larger sample, to expand the various viewpoints of other Buddhism learners