Dynamics of the gender earnings inequality in reform-era urban China
This article examines the differential impacts of marketisation and economic development on gender earnings inequality in reform-era urban China. Based on data from the 2005 population mini-census with prefecture-level statistics, we distinguish the effect of economic development from that of marketisation on the gender earnings gap. Multi-level analyses reveal that marketisation and economic development have affected gender inequality in different ways: whereas market forces have exacerbated gender earnings inequality, economic development has reduced it. Overall, marketisation appears to be ... Show more
Authors: He, Guangye; Wu, Xiaogang
Published: Los Angeles, California, Sage Publications, 2018
Resource type: Article
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