Impacts of a Gender Ratio Change on China’s Wage Income Distributions

Zhi-fang Su, Yi-zheng Fu and Mei-Yuan Chen

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2022, vol. 58, issue 7, 2066-2078

Abstract: This study examines the possible effects of a gender ratio change on China’s wage income distributions with the unconditional quantile estimation. Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey for 1989–2011, the unconditional wage income distributions before and after a change in gender ratio are studied graphically. The estimated wage income density functions are confirmed to be skewed to the right and leptokurtic. An increase in gender ratio increases wage income and mitigate wage income inequality. We conclude that, other things being equal, the decreasing trend in gender ratio will enhance the wage income inequality.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2021.1956899

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