An Empirical Analysis of Gender Wage Differentials in Urban China

Guifu Chen and Shigeyuki Hamori
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Guifu Chen: Xiamen University

Chapter Chapter 5 in Rural Labor Migration, Discrimination, and the New Dual Labor Market in China, 2014, pp 53-63 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this chapter, we provide new estimates for male–female hourly wage differentials in urban China on the basis of the Oaxaca and Reimers methods (Oaxaca 1973; Reimers 1983). We use the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) questionnaire (2004 and 2006 pooling data), and employ the Heckman two-step procedure in order to address the sample selection bias. The results indicate that the hourly wage differentials and the unexplained portion of the hourly wage differentials are smaller than the differentials obtained if the sample selection bias is ignored.

Keywords: Wage Differential; Hourly Wage; Wage Equation; Sample Selection Bias; Ordinary Little Square Estimate (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-41109-0_5

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