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Rural Labor Migration, Discrimination, and the New Dual Labor Market in China

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  1. Guifu Chen

    1. Center for Macroeconomics Research, School of Economics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, People's Republic of China

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  2. Shigeyuki Hamori

    1. Faculty of Economics, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

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  • 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
  • Uses recent, representative data and advanced estimation models
  • Presents intriguing new findings

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Guifu Chen, Shigeyuki Hamori
    Pages 1-4

  3. Rural Migration and Sectoral Earning Differences in Urban China

    • Guifu Chen, Shigeyuki Hamori
    Pages 5-21

  4. A Solution to the Migrant Labor Shortage and Rural Labor Surplus in China

    • Guifu Chen, Shigeyuki Hamori
    Pages 23-38

  5. Do Chinese Employers Discriminate Against Females When Hiring Employees?

    • Guifu Chen, Shigeyuki Hamori
    Pages 39-51

  6. An Empirical Analysis of Gender Wage Differentials in Urban China

    • Guifu Chen, Shigeyuki Hamori
    Pages 53-63

  7. Bivariate Probit Analysis of the Differences Between Male and Female Formal Employment in Urban China

    • Guifu Chen, Shigeyuki Hamori
    Pages 65-76

  8. Formal and Informal Employment in Urban China: Income Differentials

    • Guifu Chen, Shigeyuki Hamori
    Pages 77-96

  9. Economic Returns to Schooling in Urban China: Ordinary Least Squares the Instrumental Variables Approach

    • Guifu Chen, Shigeyuki Hamori
    Pages 97-114

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 115-118
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Center for Macroeconomics Research, School of Economics, Xiamen University, Xiamen, People's Republic of China

    Guifu Chen

  • Faculty of Economics, Kobe University, Kobe, Japan

    Shigeyuki Hamori

About the authors

Dr. Guifu CHEN is an Associate Professor of Economics at Xiamen University in China. He received his Ph.D. from Kobe University in Japan. His main concern is labor economics and macroeconomics. He has published many papers in refereed journals, such as China Economic Review, China & World Economy, and Journal of Asian Economics.

Dr. Shigeyuki HAMORI is a Professor of Economics at Kobe University in Japan. He received his Ph.D. from Duke University and has published more than 130 papers in refereed journals. He is the author or co-author of An Empirical Investigation of Stock markets: the CCF Approach (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003), Hidden Markov Models: Applications to Financial Economics (Springer, 2004), Empirical Techniques in Finance (Springer, 2005), and Introduction of the Euro and the Monetary Policy of the European Central Bank (World Scientific, 2009). He is also the editor of Global Linkages and Economic Rebalancing in East Asia (World Scientific, 2012).

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