Women and the Chinese Labor Market: Recent Patterns and Future Possibilities

REFERENCES

• Albelda, R. P. (1986). Occupational segregation by race and gender, 1958–1981. Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 39(3), 404–411. doi:10.1177/001979398603900307
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bauer, J., Feng, W., Riley, N. E., & Xiaohua, Z. (1992). Gender inequality in urban China: Education and employment. Modern China, 18(3), 333–370. doi:10.1177/009770049201800304
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Becker, G. (1971). The economics of discrimination (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
   Google Scholar
• Bishop, J. A., Luo, F., & Wang, F. (2005). Economic transition, gender bias, and the distribution of earnings in China. Economics of Transition, 13(2), 239–259. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0351.2005.00218.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Blecker, R. A., & Seguino, S. (2002). Macroeconomic effects of reducing gender wage inequality in an export-oriented, semi-industrialized economy. Review of Development Economics, 6(1), 103–119. doi:10.1111/1467-9361.00144
   Google Scholar
• Branstetter, L., & Lardy, N. (2006). China’s embrace of globalization. In L. Brandt & T. G. Rawski (Eds.), China’s great economic transformation (pp. 633–682). Cambridge: University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Burns, J. P. (2003). “Downsizing” the Chinese state: Government retrenchment in the 1990s. China Quarterly, 175(1), 775–802. doi:10.1017/s0305741003000444
   Google Scholar
• Cai, F., & Wang, M. (2010). Growth and structural changes in employment in transition China. Journal of Comparative Economics, 38(1), 71–81. doi:10.1016/j.jce.2009.10.006
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chi, W., & Li, B. (2008). Glass ceiling or sticky floor? Examining the gender earnings differential across the earnings distribution in urban China, 1987–2004. Journal of Comparative Economics, 36(2), 243–263. doi:10.1016/j.jce.2007.12.001
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ding, S., Dong, X. Y., & Li, S. (2009). Women’s employment and family income inequality during China’s economic transition. Feminist Economics, 15(3), 163–190. doi:10.1080/13545700802526541
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dollar, D., & Gatti, R. (1999). Gender inequality, income, and growth: Are good times good for women? Mimeographed. Washington, DC: The World Bank.
   Google Scholar
• Doss, C. (2013). Intrahousehold bargaining and resource allocation in developing countries. World Bank Research Observer, 28(1), 52–78. doi:10.1093/wbro/lkt001
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Duncan, O. D., & Duncan, B. (1955). A methodological analysis of segregation indexes. American Sociological Review, 20, 210–217. doi:10.2307/2088328
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Esteve-Volart, B. (2004). Gender discrimination and growth: Theory and evidence from India. STICERD Discussion Papers DEDPS42. London: School of Economics.
   Google Scholar
• Fan, C. C. (2003). Rural-urban migration and gender division of labor in transitional China. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 27(1), 24–47. doi:10.1111/1468-2427.00429
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fan, C. C., & Li, L. (2002). Marriage and migration in transitional China: A field study of Gaozhou, Western Guangdong. Environment and Planning A, 34(4), 619–638. doi:10.1068/a34116
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fan, G., Hai, W., & Woo, W. T. (1996). Decentralized socialism and macroeconomic stability: Lessons from China in the 1980s. Inflation and Growth in China, 10–12.
   Google Scholar
• Fleisher, B., Li, H., & Zhao, M. Q. (2010). Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China. Journal of Development Economics, 92(2), 215–231. doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2009.01.010
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fleisher, B., & Yang, D. T. (2006). Problems of China’s rural labor markets and rural-urban migration. Chinese Economy, 39(3), 6–25. doi:10.2753/ces1097-1475390302
   Google Scholar
• Gustafsson, B., & Li, S. (2000). Economic transformation and the gender earnings gap in urban China. Journal of Population Economics, 13(2), 305–329. doi:10.1007/s001480050140
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jacka, T. (2005). Rural women in urban China: Gender, migration, and social change. Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe.
   Google Scholar
• King, M. C. (1992). Occupational segregation by race and sex, 1940–88. Monthly Labor Review, 115(4), 30–36.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Klasen, S. (2002). Low schooling for girls, slower growth for all? Cross-country evidence on the effect of gender inequality in education on economic development. World Bank Economic Review, 16(3), 345–373. doi:10.1093/wber/lhf004
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Klasen, S., & Lamanna, F. (2009). The impact of gender inequality in education and employment on economic growth: New evidence for a panel of countries. Feminist Economics, 15(3), 91–132. doi:10.1080/13545700902893106
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kuo, C. C., & Yang, C. H. (2008). Knowledge capital and spillover on regional economic growth: Evidence from China. China Economic Review, 19(4), 594–604. doi:10.1016/j.chieco.2008.06.004
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Liang, Y. (2012). China’s short-term and long-term development after the 2007 global financial crisis: Some critical reflections. Chinese Economy, 45(1), 3–7. doi:10.2753/ces1097-1475450100
   Google Scholar
• Liu, J. (2007). Gender dynamics and redundancy in urban China. Feminist Economics, 13(3–4), 125–158. doi:10.1080/13545700701445322
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Liu, P. W., Meng, X., & Zhang, J. (2000). Sectoral gender wage differentials and discrimination in the transitional Chinese economy. Journal of Population Economics, 13(2), 331–352. doi:10.1007/s001480050141
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Lu, Z., & Song, S. (2006). Rural–urban migration and wage determination: The case of Tianjin, China. China Economic Review, 17(3), 337–345. doi:10.1016/j.chieco.2006.04.007
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Maurer-Fazio, M., & Hughes, J. (2002). The effects of market liberalization on the relative earnings of Chinese women. Journal of Comparative Economics, 30(4), 709–731. doi:10.1006/jcec.2002.1802
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Maurer-Fazio, M., Rawski, T. G., & Zhang, W. (1997). Gender wage gaps in China’s labor market: Size, structure, trends (Working Paper Number 88, pp. 1–43). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, William Davidson Institute Working Paper Series.
   Google Scholar
• Maurer-Fazio, M., Rawski, T. G., & Zhang, W. (1999). Inequality in the rewards for holding up half the sky: Gender wage gaps in China’s urban labour market, 1988–1994. China Journal, 41, 55–88. doi:10.2307/2667587
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• National Bureau of Statistics of China. (1999–2011). China labour statistical yearbook. Beijing: China Statistical Publishing House.
   Google Scholar
• National Bureau of Statistics of China, State Statistical Bureau. (2000–2010, 2013, 2014). China statistical yearbook. Beijing: China Statistical Publishing House.
   Google Scholar
• Naughton, B. (2007). The Chinese economy: Transitions and growth. Cambridge, MA,: MIT Press.
   Google Scholar
• Prasad, E. S. (2009). Is the Chinese growth miracle built to last? China Economic Review, 20(1), 103–123. doi:10.1016/j.chieco.2008.05.007
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Riley, N. E. (1996). China’s “missing girls”: Prospects and policy. Population Today, 24(2), 4–5.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Rodrik, D. (2010). Making room for China in the world economy. American Economic Review, 100, 89–93. doi:10.1257/aer.100.2.89
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Seguino, S. (2000). Gender inequality and economic growth: A cross-country analysis. World Development, 28(7), 1211–1230. doi:10.1016/s0305-750x(00)00018-8
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Seguino, S., & Were, M. (2013). Gender, development, and economic growth in Sub–Saharan Africa. Journal of African Economies, 23, i18–i61. doi:10.1093/jae/ejt024
   Google Scholar
• Solinger, D. J. (2002). Economic informalization by Fat: China’s new growth strategy as solution or crisis? In Luigi Tomba (Ed.), On the Roots of Growth and Crisis: Capitalism, State and Society in East Asia. Rome: Annali Della Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, XXXVI, 373–417.
   Google Scholar
• Wang, M., & Cai, F. (2006). Gender wage differentials in China’s urban labour market (Research Paper Number 2006/146). Helsinki, Finland: UNU-WIDER, United Nations University (UNU).
   Google Scholar
• Wong, C. P. (2000). Central-local relations revisited the 1994 tax-sharing reform and public expenditure management in China. China Perspectives, 31, 52–63.
   Google Scholar
• Zheng, J., Bigsten, A., & Hu, A. (2009). Can China’s growth be sustained? A productivity perspective. World Development, 37(4), 874–888. doi:10.1016/j.worlddev.2008.07.008
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar