Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677X.2019.1660906
Changes in gender wage differentials in China: a regression and decomposition based on the data of CHIPS1995–2013
Xian-Zhou Zhao
; School of Management, Wenzhou Business College, PR China
Yu-Bing Zhao
; School of Information, Beijing Wuzi University, Beijing, PR China
Li-Chen Chou
orcid.org/0000-0002-5228-9518
; Department of Economics, Wenzhou Business College, PR China
Barbara Hoinunnem Leivang
; School of Business, Sias International University, PR China
Abstract
Following the enactment of the Labour Law in 1995, China’s urban labour market witnessed a divergence in both gender wage gap and discrimination against female workers before 2007, and thereafter a convergence in both. Contributions of endowment differentials between male and female workers to wage gap were diminishing because of the consistent improvement in the female workers’ endowments. Discrimination against women, on the other hand, kept increasing and exceeded that of endowment differentials and eventually became the dominating contributor by 2002. Driven by the optimisation of female workers’ endowments, the execution of new labour market legislation, the transformation of previously limitless labour supply into shortage, as well as the reform of income distribution policies, a long-term trend of convergence in both gender wage gap and discrimination has been forming. China has been striding forward into a society with more equity and justice ever since 2007.
Keywords
China; economic transition; wage differential; gender discrimination
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Publication date:
22.1.2019.
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