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The Effects of Market Liberalization on the Relative Earnings of Chinese Women

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

In this paper we first explore the effects of differences in labor market institutions and the degree of market liberalization on the size and composition of gender wages gaps in China's urban labor markets. We use enterprise-ownership type, enterprise age, and workers' methods of finding...

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Differential Rewards to, and Contributions of, Education in Urban China’s Segmented Labor Markets

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Dinh, Ngan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

earnings of continuously-employed urban workers, migrants, and laid off but subsequently re-employed workers, as well as on the … most recent earnings of laid-off (but not subsequently re-employed) workers. We also decompose the earnings differentials …. The empirical results demonstrate that educational attainment remains an important explanator of earnings differentials …

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The Role of Education in Determining Labor Market Outcomes in Urban China's Transitional Labor Markets.

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

earnings for each additional year of schooling, than that of continuously employed workers. …

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Economic Reform and Changing Patterns of Labor Force Participation in Urban and Rural China

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James; Zhang, Dandan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

In this project, we employ data from the Chinese population censuses of 1982, 1990, and 2000 to examine reform-era changes in the patterns of male and female labor force participation and in the distribution of men’s and women’s occupational attainment. Very marked patterns of change in...

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Enterprise Restructuring and Firm Performance: A Comparison of Rural and Urban Enterprises in Jiangsu Province

Dong, Xiao-yuan; Putterman, Louis; Unel, Bulent - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

worker earnings. We find a sharp contrast in the reform strategies of the SOEs and TVEs in two respects. First, the changes …

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Dowry and Intrahousehold Bargaining: Evidence from China

Brown, Philip H. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

This paper analyzes the relationship between a woman’s intrahousehold bargaining position and her welfare within marriage. Simultaneity problems common to the literature are overcome by using dowry to proxy for bargaining position. Omitted variable bias is addressed by using grain shocks in...

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