Empiircal Studies Of The Urban-rural Income Gap In Jiangxi Province

Since the reform and opening up, Jiangxi province has sustained rapid economicgrowth, the level of per capita income has been greatly improved, but the income gapbetween urban and rural residents is an inevitable phenomenon in the process ofeconomic development. According to statistics, nearly ten years of income gap betweenurban and rural areas of Jiangxi province has the expanded tendency, in2009the Genecoefficient has exceeded the "warning line"0.400，the urban Engel coefficient of JiangxiProvince in2011is0.398, the rural Engel coefficient is0.452, the Engel coefficient ofurban and rural were higher than the national average level. Jiangxi province, mostlyrural population, is a big agriculture province in China. As the rural population of thetotal population ratio is72%in2000and the rural population of the total populationratio is54%in2011, so it is very important to improve the income of farmers, protectthe price of agricultural products and develop the rural economy. The development ofrural economy is conducive not only to reduce the polarization between the rich and thepoor, but also conducive to narrowing the income gap between urban and rural areas.Long-term since, the household registration system exists, the inclination of the nationalpolicy, urban and rural social security system consummation degree difference form thebasic Dual social security system between urban and rural areas, the majority of ruralresidents has been divorced from the social security network. Duality of the socialsecurity system between urban and rural expression in social relief differences, socialinsurance differences, social welfare differences and social special care differences.Take unemployment insurance, work-related injury insurance and maternity insuranceas an example, which is still in the pilot or not the pilot in the rural areas, but it has beenbasically established in the town. In a word, in social security, rural coverage is lessthan urban coverage. This paper is mainly based on the angle of social security system,by combining theoretical analysis and empirical analysis methods, explore therelationship between social security system and the income gap between urban and ruralareas, regression results for Eviews6.0software, Learn from abroad to narrow theurban-rural income gap countermeasures and combined with the regional situation inJiangxi relevant recommendations and countermeasures proposed narrow theurban-rural income gap in Jiangxi Province. The paper content mainly is divided intoseven parts: The first part of this paper is the introduction part, mainly about the researchbackground and significance, the research status at home and abroad, review literature,discusses the research ideas and methods of this paper, basic framework and Innovationand inadequacies of this paper.The second part is the basic theory part, a brief overview of the concept, content,and functionality of the social security system and the measure and its related theoriesof urban-rural income gap.The third part belong to the theoretical analysis part, explore the influence ofincome gap between urban and rural areas social security system transmissionmechanism, Specific analysis of the relationship between maternity insurance, pensioninsurance, unemployment insurance and medical insurance and urban-rural income gap,concluded: there is closed relationship between economic growth, social security systemand the income gap, social security system mainly through direct or indirect impact ofurban and rural residents’ income and expenses.The fourth part is through to transverse and longitudinal comparison of urban-ruralincome gap in Jiangxi Province in from1978to2011the income gap between urban andrural areas, analyzed the differences of social security between urban and rural areas,the conclusion is the income gap is too large in Jiangxi province and social security isvery different between urban and rural areas.The fifth part belong to the empirical analysis part, through the collection ofJiangxi Province from2000to2010six kinds of index data: urban and rural maternityinsurance differences, pension insurance differences, unemployment insurancedifference, medical insurance differences, education spending differences, and percapita GDP growth rate. Use Eviews6.0software validation the relationship between thesix indexes and the income gap between urban and rural areas, The empirical resultsshow that maternity insurance differences, pension insurance differences, educationspending differences, and per capita GDP growth rate is positive correlation with theincome gap between urban and rural areas, the rest of the indexes is a negativecorrelation with the income gap between urban and rural areas.The sixth part is countermeasures and enlightenment narrow the income gapbetween urban and rural areas at abroad, take The United States, Japan and Brazil forexample, we find that countermeasures to narrow the income gap between urban andrural areas have in common is the government intervention and related systemconstruction and perfect. The seventh part mainly in view of the social security system and the income gapbetween urban and rural areas in Jiangxi province actual situation, combined with theempirical result analysis of the influencing factors of income gap, puts forward how toperfect the rural social security system, the suggestions and countermeasures to narrowthe income gap between urban and rural areas.