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https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2022.2106276
The wage structure and gap between public and private sectors: an empirical study in urban China
Mingming Li
Fumei Zhang
Sažetak
The idea that the wage gap (W.G.) between the public sector (P.U.S.)
and private sectors (P.R.S.) has widened is a point of contention
among scholars, but to date, there has been no systematic discussion
of changes in the W.G. and their causes in China. This article combines
data from China’s Urban Household Survey (U.H.S.) for 2004,
2008 and 2013 to examine changes in between-sector W.G.s and
identify the causal factors by wage decomposition methods. Using
ordinary least squares and a Heckman sample selection model, this
study finds that public-sector workers consistently earn more than
private-sector workers and that the W.G. is expanding, especially in
upstream industries where state-owned enterprises (S.O.E.s) have
monopoly status. In addition, the Oaxaca–Blinder (O.B.) decomposition
method is adopted to reveal that the characteristic effect is the
main cause of the W.G. Further, the regression and decomposition of
the recentered influence function show that the effect of characteristics
and coefficient effects differ across wage quantiles. This article
indicates that the intersectoral W.G. in China is widening mainly as a
result of differences in labour endowments and provides evidence to
support government decision-making.
Ključne riječi
wage structure; wage gap (W.G.); sector inequality; Oaxaca–Blinder (O.B.) decomposition; recentred influence function (R.I.F.) decomposition
Hrčak ID:
306624
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.4.2023.
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