Minimum wages may be an important instrument to reduce income inequality in a society and to promote socially inclusive economic growth. While higher minimum wages can support the Chinese transformation towards consumption driven growth, they can worsen the price competitiveness in export...

This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the 2000-2007 periods. Using a novel dataset of minimum wage regulations across more than 2,800 counties matched with firm-level data, we investigate both the effect of the minimum...

This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the period 2001-07. Using a novel administrative dataset of minimum wage regulations across more than 2,800 counties matched with countrywide firm-level data, we investigate both the...

1. Introduction and Overview -- 2. Evolution and Effects Assessment of China’s Minimum Wage Policy -- 3. Minimum Wages in China: Standard and Implication -- 4. Minimum Wages and Employment in China -- 5. Impacts of Minimum Wages on Gender Wage Gaps in Urban China -- 6. The Impact of Minimum...

Using data from the China Household Income Project, this study analyzes the effects of minimum wage policy on wage distribution in urban China from 1993 to 2013. Several major conclusions emerge from this research. First, with respect to the effects of the minimum wage on wages for low-wage...

Minimum wages may be an important instrument to reduce income inequality in a society and to promote socially inclusive economic growth. While higher minimum wages can support the Chinese transformation towards consumption driven growth, they can worsen the price competitiveness in export...