A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE INCOME GAP BETWEEN URBAN AND RURAL RESIDENTS IN BEIJING

摘要

In this paper, Gini coefficient and mean deviation of income are two indecators to measure the income gap, which shows characteristics of Beijing residents' Income Gap in recent ten years. Then, we compared mean income deviation of Income gap between urban and rural residents in Beijing. The conclusion include: Beijing residents have an increasing income gap tendency; the income structure of low-income peasant households is basically stable, with 90% of transfer income and wage income; compared with the average level of the mean deviation of income gap in Beijing, the biggest relative income gap among different districts is Daxing District, Mentougou District and Changping District. The smaller is Shunyi District and Huairou District. The relatively low rural incomes in each district are Daxing District, Yanqing District and Miyun District. The higher is Shunyi District and Tongzhou District. The causes of income gap in Beijing include real estate prices, Binary Segmentation of Urban and Rural Areas, a massive loss of labor force in suburbs and the weak industry in suburb. And the policy enlightenment of this paper are: we should focus on promoting the integration of urban and rural development and opening up of rural markets, decrease the opportunity costs of residents which are from urban and rural, in different districts and counties, and then narrowing the income gap; promoting the implementation of the strategy of Rural Revitalization and developing high-level rural industries; improve infrastructure, develop local talent and attract foreign talent.