Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium

Björn Anders Gustafsson (), Shi Li (), Ludmila Nivorozhkina () and Haiyuan Wan ()
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Björn Anders Gustafsson: Göteborg University
Ludmila Nivorozhkina: Rostov State Economic University
Haiyuan Wan: Beijing Normal University

No 8241, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering large parts of the two countries. The results from estimated earnings functions are put in perspective of the outcome from a similar comparison made at the end of the 1980s. We confirm that earnings inequality has increased rapidly in both countries and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where earnings reach a maximum at a lower age than in China. The association between education and income in China has increased to become stronger than in Russia. The earnings penalty of being employed in the public service sector in Russia has increased while the publically employed in China enjoy a positive payoff of limited magnitude.

Keywords: wages; wage inequality; gender wage gap; China; Russia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J31 J45 P23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2014-06
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Published - published in: China Economic Review, 2015, 35, 248-265

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