Gender Wage Gap in Urban China

• Authors: Yuan Ni
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper analyses the gender wage gap and returns to education in urban China using data collected from Fangshan, Beijing. The traditional Oaxaca decomposition shows that the unexplained part seems to dominate the gender wage gap in urban China. The Appleton decomposition, which takes into account sectoral location, shows that the gender gap is mostly within sector and most of the intra-sector wage gap is unexplained. The gender pay differential due to sectoral location is small; in fact, the overall sectoral location favours female in urban China.

Keywords

EN

CHINESE ECONOMY; GENDER AND ECONOMY; WAGES

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Wydział Nauk Ekonomicznych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Ekonomia. Rynek, Gospodarka, Społeczeństwo
• Year: 2005
• Issue: 17
• Pages: 90-102
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Yuan Ni

• Yuan Ni, China Youth University for Political Science, The New Experience Institute, Home Best buildings C1 Room 1005, Haidian District, Beijing, China

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA01723717