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Party membership and state jobs in urban China
Ma, Yuanyuan; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2013
The "dual-track approach" for transition would have to be facilitated by an endogenous movement of workers away from the state into private jobs. Yet, using the Chinese Household Income Project Series (CHIPs) data for the year 2002, we document preferences and premiums for state jobs in urban...
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Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila; … - 2014
Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where … become stronger than in Russia. The earnings penalty of being employed in the public service sector in Russia has increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010377367
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Yuan and Roubles : comparing wage determination in urban China and Russia at the beginning of the new millennium
Gustafsson, Björn; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, L. I.; Wan, … - 2014
Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where … become stronger than in Russia. The earnings penalty of being employed in the public service sector in Russia has increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364980
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Yuan and Roubles : Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium
Gustafsson, Björn - 2015
Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where … become stronger than in Russia. The earnings penalty of being employed in the public service sector in Russia has increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033388
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Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where … become stronger than in Russia. The earnings penalty of being employed in the public service sector in Russia has increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884151
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Economic Transformation and the Gender Earnings Gap in Urban China
Gustafsson, Björn; Shi, Li - 2014
The gender wage gap and its development in urban China is analysed utilising two large scale surveys covering 10 provinces for the years 1988 and 1995. The results indicate that from an international perspective, the gender wage gap in urban China appears to be relatively small. It is, however,...
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The Evolution of Gender Earnings Gaps and Discrimination in Urban China : 1988-1995
Démurger, Sylvie; Fournier, Martin; Chen, Yi - 2006
This paper analyzes the impact of market liberalization on gender earnings differentials and discrimination against women in urban China at the beginning of the 90s. The observed stability in the overall gender earnings gap between 1988 and 1995 is shown to result from a complex set of...
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The Effects of Market Liberalization on the Relative Earnings of Chinese Women
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James W. - 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 wage gaps in China's urban labor markets. We use enterprise-ownership type, enterprise age, and workers' methods of finding...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005784687
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Earnings among nine ethnic minorities and the Han majority in China's cities
Gustafsson, Björn; Yang, Xiuna - 2016
This paper asks if economic growth and steps towards a market economy have affected earnings gaps between the Han and nine large urban ethnic minorities: Zhuang, Hui, Manchurian, Tujia, Uighur, Miao, Tibetan, Mongol and Korean. It also asks how earnings premiums and earnings penalties have...
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