Adjustment of industrial structure, urban-rural income disparity and sustainable development under a spatial spillover framework

Abstract

The article mainly studies the spatial effects of the adjustment of industrial structure on the urban-rural income disparity. The results show that: first, China's regional industrial restructure and urban-rural income disparity exists significant spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity; Second, the adjustment of industrial structure has two has spatial effect on the urban-rural income disparity. And the last, an nonlinear spatial spillover effect exists between economy growth and urban-rural income disparity, the increase of urbanization rate has positive effects on reducing urban-rural income disparity and bring sustainable development.