child on gender inequality from the perspectives of labor market outcomes and its mechanisms. Results show that becoming a … mother implies a sharp decline in labor earnings, labor market participation, working hours and wage rate, while fathers … work in the formal sector. Moreover, social norms towards gender roles lead mothers to devote more time to housework and …

This paper studies the evolution of urban China’s gender earnings gap from 1988 to 2013. We first document that the … worked in the State-Owned Sectors (SOEs). Following Bayer and Charles (2018), we decompose the change of gender earnings gap … at the whole earnings’ distribution and find that the change of wage structure dominantly drives the trend of gender …

This paper investigates the inequality of opportunity in China's labor earnings, defined as the component of inequality … determined by personal circumstances that lie beyond the control of an individual, of which gender is one, as opposed to the … inequality of opportunity in the total inequality of individual labor earnings for people aged 26–55 years, and separately for …

The within-firm gender wage gap plays an important role in understanding the overall gender gap in the labor market …. This paper describes how parenthood is associated with the within-firm gender gap using a unique personnel dataset from a …. Our study highlights the importance of internal gender segregation in understanding gender wage differentials …