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https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2020.1734850
Composition effect matters: Decomposing the gender pay gap in Chinese university graduates
Qinying He
Lin Xu
Yao Men
Sažetak
The purpose of this article is to decompose the composition
effect and wage structure effect of the gender starting pay gap in
Chinese university graduates at every quantile. The article aims to
determine if the pay gap at every quantile is a result of gender
characteristics difference, or the differences in returns to those
characteristics. A 2007 Chinese university survey of new graduates
employment and capacity conducted by an education research
company MyCOS institute is used. This article exploits a counterfactual
decomposition analysis using quantile regression to
decompose the gender pay gap into one component that is
based on differences in characteristics and one component that is
based on differences in coefficients across the log wage distribution.
We find that the majority of the gender pay differential is
attributed to the gender difference in the endowment of human
capital and the composition effect explains 30–60% of the pay
difference at each quantile of the log wage distribution. It means
that female graduates have almost the same rewards to characteristics
as their male counterparts, especially at the bottom of
the log wage distribution. We also find that female graduates
have lower mean work capacity than male graduates and work
capacity is positively related with wage. This article provides policy
implications on how to reduce the gender pay gap after
higher education reform in a transition economy.
Ključne riječi
gender pay gap; entry wage; quantile regression; counterfactual decomposition; higher education; China
Hrčak ID:
254423
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Datum izdavanja:
9.2.2021.
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