This paper studies on the determinants of income and urban-rural income gap to shed light on the problem of urban …-rural income inequality in China. OLS, conditional quantile regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition methods are used to analyze … essential determinants of households' income level. These two factors exert heterogeneous effects at different percentiles of …

inequality and the growth of both income and population, once we control for the initial distribution of skills. What determines … one third of the variation in income inequality, and that skill inequality is itself explained by historical schooling …