The Influence of Family Migration of Migrant Workers on the Consumption Inequality in Urban Areas —Based on the Study of Family Heterogeneity
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The Influence of Family Migration of Migrant Workers on the Consumption Inequality in Urban Areas —Based on the Study of Family Heterogeneity
LUO Li1,2, LI Xiaofeng1,2
1. School of Economic and Management, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China; 2. Beijing Food Safety Policy&Strategy Research Base, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China
Abstract Compared with income inequality, consumption inequality can reflect the welfare status of individuals or families more comprehensively and intuitively. In China, the family structure of rural and urban residents is changing gradually. Therefore, the measurement of consumption inequality based on family homogeneity is easy to produce a large measurement errors. Under the background of the gradual family migration of migrant workers in cities, this paper uses the 2016 CFPS data to compare and analyze the consumption costs of urban resident families and migrant worker families with different numbers and ages of children in urban areas. Then the consumption inequality of urban area is corrected by equivalent scales. And the consumption inequality in urban areas is further decomposed and calculated. The results show that the measurement method of ignoring the number of family members and age structure is easy to underestimate of current consumption inequality. For the group migrant workers, the consumption Gini coefficient based on on the full demand system is nearly 20% higher than that of the unadjusted level. According to the results of group decomposition, the contribution of migrant workers to the consumption inequality in urban areas is greater than that of urban residents. And the inequality within migrant workers is more than that between migrant workers and urban residents. The decomposition of consumer categories shows that the main factors that open the consumption in urban areas are household equipment, other expenditures, education and entertainment, medical care and other enjoyable consumer expenditure.
LUO Li,LI Xiaofeng. The Influence of Family Migration of Migrant Workers on the Consumption Inequality in Urban Areas —Based on the Study of Family Heterogeneity. Economic Survey, 2021, 38(3): 024.
2021, Vol. 38 
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