京都大学 大学院経済学研究科・経済学部

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マクロ経済学セミナー(2025.5.29)(京都大学経済研究所マクロ経済学・経済システム研究会と共催)

Viktoria Hnatkovska(Vancouver School Economics, University of British Columbia)

開催日:
2025年5月29日(木)16:00~17:30
場所:
京都大学 吉田キャンパス 法経済学部東館 8階リフレッシュルーム
言語:
英語
コーディネーター:
遊喜 一洋

“Urbanization, Structural Transformation and Rural-Urban Disparities in China and India” Viktoria Hnatkovska

Abstract:
Over the past three decades China and India have experienced rapid growth and structural transformation. Underneath this similarity however is one significant difference: rural-urban wage gaps during this period declined in India, but widened in China. We formalize a two-sector-two-location model in which structural transformation and urbanization respond endogenously to productivity shocks. While the structural transformation effect widens the rural-urban wage gap, the urbanization effect reduces it. We attribute the contrasting wage gap dynamics in the two countries to the higher costs of urban relocation for workers in China.