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Impact of minimum wage on gender wage gaps in urban China

Li, Shi; Ma, Xinxin - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 20, pp. 1-22

This paper provides evidence on whether the minimum wage (MW) has affected gender wage gaps in urban China. Several major conclusions emerge. First, from 1995 to 2007, the proportion of workers whose wages were below the regional MW level was greater for female workers than for male workers....

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Earnings among nine ethnic minorities and the Han majority in China's cities

Gustafsson, Björn; Yang, Xiuna - 2016

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 changed for the nine ethnic minorities. For the analysis we use a … and earnings penalties: One ethnic minority for whom the development has been more favourable than for the Han majority; a …

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Do negative native-place stereotypes lead to discriminatory wage penalties in China's migrant labor markets?

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Tran, Ngoc-Han Thi - 2015

China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply as Chinese, but rather by their native place and provincial origin. Negative personality traits are often attributed to people from specific areas. People from Henan, in...

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Height Conditions Salary Expectations : Evidence from Large-Scale Data in China

Yang, Xiao - 2017

Height premium has been revealed by extensive literature, however, evidence from China based on large-scale data remains still lacking. In this paper, we study how height conditions salary expectations by exploring a dataset covering over 140,000 Chinese job seekers. By using graphical and...

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Migrants as Second-Class Workers in Urban China? A Decomposition Analysis

Démurger, Sylvie - 2014

In urban China, urban resident annual earnings are 1.3 times larger than long term rural migrant earnings as observed in a nationally representative sample in 2002. Using microsimulation, we decompose this difference into four sources, with particular attention to path dependence and statistical...

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Anatomy of the Wage Gap between Local and Migrant Workers in Urban China : New Evidence from Matched Data

Cai, Shu; Zhang, Xingjian - 2021

This paper examines the wage differentials between local and migrant workers in the local labor markets of urban China by using unique data that survey both migrants and local residents from the same community. The results suggest that the wage differentials between the two groups can be...

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Gender wage gap in China : a large meta-analysis

Iwasaki, Ichirō; Ma, Xinxin - In: Journal for labour market research 54 (2020) 1/17, pp. 1-19

This paper performs a meta-analysis of 1472 estimates extracted from 199 previous studies to investigate the gender wage gap in China. The results show that, although the gender wage gap in China during the transition period has an impact that statistically significant and economically...

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Identity-based earning discrimination among Chinese people

Siddique, Abu Bakkar - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/5, pp. 1-42

Hukou registration is an instrument to control nonplanned population and capital movements, which the Chinese Communist Party has been exploiting extensively since the 1950s. It requires that each Chinese citizen be classified as either an agricultural or nonagricultural hukou inheritor and be...

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The quiet revolution in women's human capital and the gender earnings gap in the People's Republic of China

Li, Zhengyang; Zhao, Guochang - 2020

Using the 2010 and 2014 data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), this paper analyzes the effect of human capital on the gender earnings gap, both within cohorts and across cohorts using regression, Oaxaca-Blinder, and Juhn-Murphy-Pierce decomposition analyses. On the one hand, over the...

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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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