J Econ (2017) 121:29–49
DOI 10.1007/s00712-016-0515-3


Social conflict and wage inequality
Jiancai Pi1 · Pengqing Zhang1


Received: 2 April 2016 / Accepted: 11 October 2016 / Published online: 21 October 2016
Springer-Verlag Wien 2016

Abstract This paper studies the relationship between social conflict and skilled–
unskilled wage inequality through the three-sector general equilibrium approach. In
the basic model without the urban unskilled minimum wage, we find that when the
government enh ...