This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and decomposes these differences into treatment and endowment effects using the technique developed by Borooah and Iyer (2005). Population census data are used to estimate...

This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and decomposes these differences into treatment and endowment effects using the technique developed by Borooah and Iyer (2005). Population census data are used to estimate...

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...