Working Paper Series, Department of Economics, Uppsala University
No 2010:8:
Gender, Wages and Social Security in China’s Industrial Sector
Johanna Rickne ()
Abstract: This study compares average earnings and productivities
for men and women employed in roughly 200,000 Chinese industrial
enterprises. Women’s average wages lag behind men’s wages by 11%, and this
result is robust to the inclusion of non-wage income in the form of social
insurance payments. The gender-wage gap is wider among workers with more
than 12 years of education (28%), mainly because of the higher relative
wages received by skilled men in foreign-invested firms. Women’s average
productivity falls behind men’s productivity by a larger margin than the
gap in earnings, and the null-hypothesis of earnings discrimination is
thereby rejected. Equal average wages between men and women are found among
firms located in China’s Special Economic Zones, and also among some light
industrial sectors with high shares of female employees. Market reform
hence appears to have improved women’s relative incomes.
Keywords: China; gender wage gap; non-wage compensation; (follow links to similar papers)
JEL-Codes: I30; J16; J71; O10; (follow links to similar papers)
48 pages, May 10, 2010
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