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Employment Equality Policy, and Ethnicity and Gender Wage Gaps

In: Labor Market Institutions in China

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  • Xinxin Ma

    (Hosei University)

Abstract

While the Chinese government has implemented policies to promote employment equalityEmployment equality for ethnicity and gender, discrimination against ethnic minoritiesEthnic minority and women in the workplace persists, leading to ethnicity and gender wage gapsGender wage gap. Although some empirical studies have examined either the ethnicity or gender wage gapGender wage gap, there is a scarcity of studies that explore both simultaneously. Using national survey data from the Chinese Household Income ProjectChinese Household Income Project (CHIP) surveys from 2002 to 2018 and employing decompositionDecomposition methods, this study investigates the determinants of the ethnicity and gender wage gapsGender wage gap in ChinaChina. The decompositionDecomposition results indicate that differences in wage returns of endowment factors contribute to the wage gapWage gap between HanHan men and ethnic minorityEthnic minority women, suggesting the existence of workplace discrimination against both ethnic minoritiesEthnic minority and women in ChinaChina. The contribution rate to the wage gapWage gap is greater for the gender wage gapGender wage gap effect than for the ethnicity wage gapWage gap effect, suggesting that discrimination against women may be much more severe than that against ethnic minoritiesEthnic minority in Chinese workplaces.

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  • Xinxin Ma, 2024. "Employment Equality Policy, and Ethnicity and Gender Wage Gaps," Springer Books, in: Labor Market Institutions in China, chapter 0, pages 199-232, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-97-6156-2_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-6156-2_8
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