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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298536003321

Autore

Chen Guifu

Titolo

Rural Labor Migration, Discrimination, and the New Dual Labor Market in China / / by Guifu Chen, Shigeyuki Hamori

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-642-41109-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (122 p.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Economics, , 2191-5504

Disciplina

331.120951

Soggetti

Labor economics

Social sciences

Statistics 

Labor Economics

Social Sciences, general

Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Rural Migration and Sectoral Earning Differences in Urban China -- A Solution to the Migrant Labor Shortage and Rural Labor Surplus in China -- Do Chinese Employers Discriminate against Females when Hiring Employees? -- An Empirical Analysis of Gender Wage Differentials in Urban China -- Bivariate Probit Analysis of the Differences between Male and Female Formal Employment in Urban China -- Formal and Informal Employment in Urban China – Income Differentials -- Economic Returns to Schooling in Urban China: OLS and the Instrumental Variables Approach -- First Publication.

Sommario/riassunto

This book studies some important issues in China’s labor market, such as rural labor migration, employment and wage discrimination, the new dual labor market, and economic returns on schooling, using the newer and representative data and advanced estimation models. This approach has yielded many interesting results, including a solution to the dilemma of two ongoing crises since 2004: the rural labor surplus and severe shortage of migrant labor. While male workers generally received less favorable treatment and consequently enjoyed a lower



average employment probability than female workers in 1996, they also received preferential treatment over female workers, who otherwise had identical worker characteristics in 2005. We provide new estimates for male-female hourly wage differentials in urban China, and our results indicate that the hourly wage differentials and the unexplained part of the hourly wage differentials are smaller than the differentials obtained by ignoring the sample selection bias. We study China’s new dual labor market, which is shifting from a rural migration versus urban workers setup to informal workers versus formal workers setup, and present some interesting results. Our study is the first to adopt the IV methodology and the Heckman (1979) two-step procedure simultaneously for the estimation of economic returns on schooling in China.