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...

Faster urbanization plays a key role in the Chinese economic transformation. However, at the Lewis turning point, the hukou institution constitutes a serious risk to the process, as it restricts the access of migrants to public services offered by cities. To attract further migration, firms...

Faster urbanization plays a key role in the Chinese economic transformation. However, at the Lewis turning point, the hukou institution constitutes a serious risk to the process, as it restricts the access of migrants to public services offered by cities. To attract further migration, firms...