Economic transition and gender differentials in wages and productivity: Evidence from Chinese manufacturing enterprises
We use firm-level data to analyze male-female wage differences in Chinese industry in the late 1990s. Our estimates indicate that employers' discrimination against women was not a significant source of the gender wage gap in Chinese state-owned enterprises. Instead, we find that the relative wage of unskilled female to male workers was higher than their relative productivity. This result indicates that unskilled female workers in the state sector had historically received wage premiums and consequently accounted for a disproportionate share of the sector's labor surplus.
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2009
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Authors: | Dong, Xiao-yuan ; Zhang, Liqin |
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Journal of Development Economics. - Elsevier, ISSN 0304-3878. - Vol. 88.2009, 1, p. 144-156
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | I30 J16 J21 J64 J71 O10 R20 Gender wage discrimination Economic transition China |
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