The Effects of the State Sector on Wage Inequality in Urban China: 1988–2007 This paper examines the effects of state sector domination on wage inequality in urban China. Using Chinese Household Income Project surveys, we conduct two exercises: with quantile regression analysis, we identify wage gaps across the distribution and over time; and we employ the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition ...

China experienced a sharp increase in wage inequality between unskilled and skilled workers in the late 1990s. Using a sample of 1,500 firms in five Chinese cities with available data for 1998 and 2000, we investigate the role of technology and foreign trade in determining China’s wage inequality. We find evidence that conditional on the technology deployed, trade reduces wage inequality in exp...

Most existing analyses on the gender wage gap (GWG) have neglected the establishment as a place where inequality between male and female employees arises and is maintained. The use of linked employee-employer data permits us to move beyond the individual and consider the importance of the workplace to explain gender pay differentials. That is, we first provide a comprehensive study on the effec...

Institutions, Markets and Men’s and Women’s Wage Inequality: Evidence from Ukraine ∗ Ukraine, the second largest country in the former Soviet bloc, is facing the challenge of rallying popular support for major structural reforms. As in most developing economies, the “Orange Revolution” government’s success will depend on its ability to keep income distribution within an acceptable range. This p...

Despite considerable gender convergence over time, substantial gender inequality persists in all countries. Using Danish administrative data from 1980-2011, we show that most of the remaining gender inequality can be attributed to the dynamic effects of having children. The arrival of children leads to a long-run penalty in female earnings of 21% driven in roughly equal proportions by labor for...

increases in the proportion of women in management. During this time, women’s representation in managerial occupations increased from about one-third to one-half.1 These positions confer well-documented benefits, including improved status, wages, autonomy, and overall work experience (England et al. 1994; Reskin and Ross 1992). In recent years, a spate of empirical research has addressed women’...