The Effects of Market Liberalization on the Relative Earnings of Chinese Women

Margaret Maurer-Fazio and James Hughes

No 460, William Davidson Institute Working Papers Series from William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Abstract: 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 wages gaps in China's urban labor markets. We use enterprise-ownership type, enterprise age, and workers' methods of finding employment as proxies for the extent of market liberalization. We find both the size of the wage gaps and the proportion of the gap left unexplained by differences in productive characteristics largest in the most liberalized (joint venture) sector, and smallest in the least liberalized (state) sector. We next investigate the effects of differences in wage structure on the gender wage gaps. We find that differences in wage structure, in general, and the degree of wage dispersion, in particular, are extremely important in accounting for the larger wage gaps in the joint venture and collective sectors relative to the state-owned sector.

Keywords: China; gender wage gap; labor; market liberalization; earnings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J31 J71 O15 O53 P23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 53 pages
Date: 2002-03-01
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