An Empirical Study on the Relationship between Urbanization, Industrial Structure and Urban-rural Income Gap—Take Yunnan province as an Example

Abstract

There is a certain correlation between urbanization, industrial structure and urban-rural income gap. In this paper, structural vector autoregressive model (SVAR type) is used to construct the three relations. Taking Yunnan province as an example, the three relations are empirically tested. The research results show that there is a long-term equilibrium relationship between urbanization, industrial structure and urban-rural income gap in Yunnan province. There is a u-shaped relationship between urbanization and urban-rural income gap, and an inverted u-shaped relationship between industrial structure and urban-rural income gap. The change of urban-rural income gap is mainly caused by itself. The influence of industrial structure on the change of urban-rural income gap is greater than that of urbanization on the change of urban-rural income gap.